Gary Werner

Professional writer. Perpetual student. Artisan coffee evangelist. Soul music fan.

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Warm wishes for a bright and buoyant new year. Roosevelt Row Arts District. Phoenix.

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Sunday ramble. Piestewa Peak. Phoenix.

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Holiday treat from our delightful daughters: an overnight stay in a finely refurbished vintage Airstream. Hanging with the cool kids in the Roosevelt Row blocks of Phoenix.

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Subterranean. One of many rooms at the Phoenix Art Museum devoted to the huge exhibition of works by Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow Teresita Fernandez.

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Luminaria Nights. Desert Botanical Garden. Phoenix.

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New street murals. Phoenix.

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Oleander. Morning walk. Phoenix, Arizona.

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Day trip. Sedona. Arizona.

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Live music. Desert Botanical Garden. Phoenix.

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Only two weeks remain:

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Congratulations, New Zealand.

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Remarkable reading! This new novel, told in the style of venerable tall tales like Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill, is completely compelling. It’s particularly powerful in our current social climate. Heaps of kudos to the author for his work of magic.

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Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America / Heard Museum. Phoenix.

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Morning at Chautauqua Park in Boulder.

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Sunset. Boulder, Colorado.

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This new documentary about an American literary icon is captivating. (It’s also a serendipitous complement to our family summer reading project: Southern Gothic classics.)

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Hello August. High summer in Longboat Key, Florida. A 1958 postcard found at a small bookshop.

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Happy birthday to my younger daughter! Adele Werner turns 20. (A favorite photo from France last summer)

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Reclining on the beach with a Cormac McCarthy novel. Savoring a superb word.

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Patterns in the sand. Manzanita. Oregon Coast.