I was digging through one of my memory boxes the other day looking for a letter to give to my daughter for a school project when I discovered a lined yellow piece of paper with words written in my mom’s signature handwritting with those bold capital letters and her trademark bright colored magic markers. The [...]

Over the past nine years, I have discovered Arizona treasures in virtually every corner of our state. Some are more obvious than others like our majestic landscapes and natural wonders. It’s hard not to be in shock and awe when you first lay eyes on the unparalleled greatness of the Grand Canyon, the spiritual spires [...]

You only need to watch our show a few times to realize that one of my favorite pastimes along the Arizona Highways is eating. Then again, let’s be honest, what is one of the first things you say when you get to your destination, where is a good place to eat? Right? I mean regardless [...]

We are always on the look out for new and exciting adventures along the Arizona Highways. I know that naysayers think that after nine seasons what else can there be to discover to which I say, throw down the gauntlet and I’ll show you something you have yet to experience. This week, I am triumphant. [...]

No matter if you are a boy or girl, young or old, live in the United States or somewhere abroad, chances are at one time of your life, you wanted to be a cowboy. There is a mystique about the American West that captures our hearts and spirits in a way like none other. That [...]

One of my favorite musicals is “My Fair Lady.” Even though Henry Higgins does seem a bit chauvinistic now, I remember watching it as a young girl thinking this musical Pygmalion was quite romantic. To this day, one of my favorite scenes is when Eliza Doolittle, all dressed to the nines goes to the horse [...]

I admit I have never been a bird person. I did have a Parakeet when I was a kid because my parents didn’t want to buy me a dog and yet it just wasn’t the same as having something soft and cuddly to snuggle with you or take to the park or for a walk. [...]

I can’t remember how old I was when I asked the question, “is there really a Santa Claus,” the “tooth fairy” and the “Easter bunny?” At what point do we go from that wide eyed innocence, excitement, blind faith to “just the facts ma’am.” Or in other words, if I can’t feel it, see it [...]

In the first season of Arizona Highways Television, I was pushed out of a perfectly good airplane. Okay, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it, but what viewers witnessed was me flinging myself out of an airplane at 13,000 feet and then balling like a baby when I finally hit the ground. Everyone who [...]

When I look back at pictures of my Grandma with her waist length jet black hair that she always wore back in braids often with beads running through it, I only wish I had spent more time with her getting to know our Native American culture and background. Unfortunately we lived on opposite sides of [...]