This time of year I try to remember that the best gifts in life are those I too often take for granted: my ever-supportive husband, my smart and sensible sons, my loving extended family and friends and the loyal, steadfast team of people that make up the editorial, circulation, advertising and technical strength behind RAISING [...]
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 [...]
It’s been a long, exasperating stint since that day in early June when we arrived at work to find our office completely flooded from a backup in the men’s restroom above us. The situation was so bizarre it was almost funny. After all, we went through this drill two years ago, when a broken pipe [...]
I’m quite sure our three summer interns will never have a professional experience quite like this one. We had just two perfectly average days. Then, early on the morning on Tuesday June 12, they got a message from their boss: “Our office is flooded. Not necessary to come in today but if you do, wear [...]
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 [...]
We aren’t very good at waiting. We want what we want now. Not later. We seek our news online because we can’t stand waiting even a day to know what’s going on. We “Google it” because our curiosity demands immediate satiation. Even outside the realm of technology, we are impatient. We can’t stand it when [...]
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 [...]
Make your next birthday party a real splash by holding it at Kiwanis Recreation Center’s indoor wave pool and water slide! What could be better than three-foot waves and a double-spiral water slide? We’re giving away a Splash Bash Birthday Party valued at $175. It includes: 16 people, birthday child is free two-hour hosted public [...]
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This summer, those lovable yellow minions assemble and return to theaters when “Despicable Me 2″ opens July 3. We are sending five families (four tickets each) to a special, reserved-seating advance screening at 7pm on Thursday, June 27 at the AMC Deer Valley 30. The screening will be in Real D 3D. The film features [...]
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JUNE 2013
$6.00Great Escapes! Our updated directory of some of the best family-friendly getaways at resorts in Arizona, California, Colorado, Mexico and Nevada.
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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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