My last day on the border, Randy Mayer graciously led two of us on a migrant memorial walk. In a hike of about 1.5 hours, we visited four...

I encountered creativity and art in several ways at the border. If you're reading all these blogs, I've shared some music with you and...

As I work on my 20th blog post, I think we can all agree the situation at the US / Mexico border is complex and multi-faceted. How it got...

Randy admitted it sounded like the beginning of a joke. But the lineup for speakers at Common Ground on the Border gave participants a...

I've been home from Nogales for a week and a half and I'm ready to go back. What draws me is the powerful intersection of life's broken...

Shura Wallin, co-founder of the Green Valley / Sahuarita Samaritans, keeps asking the same question. "How many people do you know would...

Picture your neighborhood. The road you drive on to get to work or school. The neighbors you're close to, even the ones you just wave to....

The leaders of Common Ground on the Border (and it's big sister, Common Ground on the Hill) believe there is value in bringing together...

The Tohono O'odham are a Native American tribe in the Sonoran desert, the desert that includes land in both Mexico and the US. Tohono...

It would have been easier in Tucson, Randy says. But it's more meaningful in Green Valley / Sahuarita. So if you've read and retained...

I am in awe of the Sahuarita Food Bank: the organization, the volunteers, and the spirit surrounding all of it. The food bank is...

When I first reached out to the amazing Randy Mayer about volunteering during sabbatical, all I really knew was that people from his...

I couldn’t figure out why our group wasn’t moving further into the building. If they stepped into the room we could get in with all the...

Paul, stalking me through a phone app, noticed I was in Mexico most of today. It was, once again, a heart-breaking-open experience of...

Well, not exactly. Today ended up much busier and more meaningful than I expected. I attended a program on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and...

Today we learned that Search is probably not my calling. For four hours we drove along beautiful vistas of rolling hills, and switchback...

Every Thursday and Saturday Good Shepherd UCC hosts a food pantry. Which means today, when 150 people were gathered for the Border Issues...

I know I said I would write about the border wall in Nogales next, but the news out of Tucson today is sending me in a different...

There is, of course, so much talk about building "the wall," a physical barrier at the U.S. - Mexico border. From across the country in...

We're surprised at how polite the immigrants are; smiling and thanking lawyers and U.S. Marshals. While shuffling in the shackles that...