For a brief moment as I was waking up on Saturday morning, I thought, “It was all a bad dream!” No such luck. Our office — our new office, the one in a completely different suite, in a completely different building, the one we just moved into in August after 72 days of forced evacuation [...]
Until further notice, this is my office. Tina’s office looks pretty much the same. So does Michelle’s and Susie’s and…well, you get the picture. We’re homeless. I feel like I’m stuck in a loop, like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day.” Two years ago, almost to the day, a team of technicians from ABSOLUT Restoration in [...]
Staff photographer Dan Friedman is the only person I know who could make a disaster look like a beautiful work of art. The three-dimensional texture of a piece of painter’s tape slapped hastily on a conference room wall. The lovely flutter of a sales department spreadsheet blowing in the great wind tunnel that is now [...]
We find ourselves once again without a home, thanks to a dysfunctional urinal in the men’s room at Signature Salon upstairs. I was already feeling overwhelmed by my to-do list when I got the call from Circulation Director Brandy Collet at 7:30 this morning. She’d gone to the office early, her sick and feverish son [...]
Everyone kept asking me how the babies were doing. I was running out of answers because I hadn’t seen them. August in my household was a fun but flurried month of arrivals and departures. We welcomed both of our grown sons home for separate visits from Washington, D.C.. and reveled in the chance to catch [...]
The crew from ABSOLUT Restoration unloaded dozens of additional boxes yesterday, piling them high in the hallways as Leon Hauck from Fulcrum Enterprises darted around the office reestablishing our computer network. The phones started ringing. Deliveries started arriving. Our postal carrier brought in the mail. Shortly after noon, our wi-fi was working. Normalcy is a [...]
After 55 days of disruption and dislocation, Raising Arizona Kids is back in its rightful home. We’re not fully functional — computers and phones will be set up later today and we’ve got a mess of unpacking and sorting and organizing ahead of us — but our desks and chairs, computers and files are now [...]
When we had to evacuate our office June 2 and move everything we could to my house, I knew there would be additional challenges to getting each day’s tasks accomplished. But this is one I didn’t count on. This morning, I was sitting on my living room couch trying to process our last three movie [...]
It’s been more than three weeks since we unknowingly angered the water gods. More than three weeks since we sloshed through water rescuing our computers and files. More than three weeks since a restoration company packed out most of our belonging and trucked them to a warehouse somewhere in town. More than three weeks since [...]
Yesterday I decided I was finally losing it. The commotion in my house was at an all-time high. My doorbell rang constantly and so did my cell phone. My brain circuits were so overloaded that when Editorial Intern Brooke Mortensen asked what she could do to help, my first response was, “I don’t know!” For [...]
MAY 2013
$6.00Our 2013 directory of Valley aquatics programs — everything from learn-to-swim programs to diving, racing and synchronized swimming!
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April 2013
$6.00Our April 2013 issue features the 2013 Summer Solutions directory — more than 500 day camps in Maricopa County!
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March 2013
$6.00Our March 2013 issue features the 2013 directory of Overnight Camps in Arizona and the Southwest!
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February 2013
$6.00Our February 2013 issue is all about babies! Learn how to begin building your baby’s bookshelf, make your own baby food, find parent/tot classes and Daddy Boot Camps around the Valley. Plus: gifts, gadgets and great new looks for baby.
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January 2013
$6.00It’s our annual pregnancy issue! Learn about the latest trend among expectant parents: “gender-reveal” parties. Plus: Should you bank your baby’s umbilical cord blood?
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December 2012
$6.00Ice hockey in the desert? Our December issue tells you how to get your kids started. Plus, an insider’s tour of the Arizona Doll and Toy Museum. And two terrific holiday crafts your kids will love!
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