by Lori DeBoer | Apr 15, 2013
by Lori DeBoer La Grande Orange rises out from the intersection of 40th Street and Campbell like an oasis in the desert. You might mistake it for a mirage in an urban landscape more given to ho-hum strip malls. The first thing that catches my eye is the movement of...
by Lori DeBoer | Apr 15, 2013
I landed the job of overhauling the 2nd edition of The Insiders’ Guide to Phoenix–which included writing a lot of it from scratch–based on my years of experience as a travel writer covering the Valley of the Sun. I was able to bring one of my good...
by Lori DeBoer | Apr 15, 2013
I was visiting Manitou Springs once with a friend when we happened upon a shrine tucked away near an abandoned spring. It was dedicated to a teenager who had been killed by a transient. I could not get this girl’s story out of my head. How could a murder occur...
by Lori DeBoer | Apr 15, 2013
Read an excerpt: “I correspond with some members of a group of people afflicted with PPH. One woman lives on a ranch in some Western state, more than an hour’s drive from a doctor, longer from a hospital. She blew a hole in her heart giving birth. The...
by Lori DeBoer | Apr 15, 2013
A sixteen-year-old boy, lousy with lust and a certain lassitude, falls in with a fast crowd and, one evening, purloins the pears from a tree near his family’s vineyard. He and his gang aren’t particularly hungry; they sample a few and throw the rest to the hogs. That...
by Lori DeBoer | Apr 11, 2013
In this story, I wrote about a woman whose father has Alzheimer’s disease and has come to live with her and her husband. The story appears to revolve around a litter of wild kittens and the question of what to do with them. “All the Love in the...
