Of Vistas and Visions
History, like beauty, is in the eyes of beholder. A New York transplant discovers new vistas and a new sense of history — not to mention affordable real estate — in Tucson, Arizona.
Edie Jarolim is a writer and editor living in Tucson, Arizona. Sign up on this blog to get updates about her humorous tell-all/memoir, GETTING NAKED FOR MONEY: An Accidental Travel Writer Reveals All.
History, like beauty, is in the eyes of beholder. A New York transplant discovers new vistas and a new sense of history — not to mention affordable real estate — in Tucson, Arizona.
When I bought a house that fit my every fantasy of Southwest style, it came with a niche. I soon realized it was missing something.
I grew up in Brooklyn, where migrating birds meant pigeons visiting from New Jersey. I have no patience for standing around and staring at branches, trying to see something I’m not going to be able to identify. But hummingbird banding — and bonding — in southern Arizona turned out to be a life list-worthy experience.
Originally published in More magazine, this Lowell Thomas award-winning story about visiting a nudist resort is the inspiration for my new memoir’s title, but is not the version included in it. I’ve reserved for the book the far funnier back story of how I got the assignment and what it was really like going undercover — and uncovered.