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...their adobe-style house. As long as their pet terrier, Stella, is inside, they don't worry much. "The bobcat jumps around up there and takes care of the mice," says Carolyn, 61, a clinical psychologist from Boulder, Colo. The Zeigers also get the occasional rattlesnake on their porch, and in the summer they have to stay indoors to avoid the midday heat. But despite those inconveniences--and in part because of them--they have developed a deep love of the desert in the five years since they moved here. Twenty miles from Tucson, their house looks...
Carolyn Zeiger is doing her best to reduce the impact their home makes on the desert. "Given the rate the desert is being gobbled up by people like us, my feeling is we need to put some back," she says, standing on her porch and pointing to the plants in her yard. "I put in native plants only--ocotillo, Arizona rosewood, desert willow, prickly pear. I start them with a little water, but soon they will survive on their...
Always the Californian, Jessica L. Jones ’06 will go out on her porch overlooking the Pacific every morning and throw her hands up in the air, yoga-style, embracing the day with vigor and ear-to-ear grins. She’ll drive a bright red convertible with the top down to an investment banking job, where she’ll keep her male inferiors snugly subdued under her pointy-toed shoe...
From either side, Sam Gale Rosen ’06 and Mathew J. Ferrante ’05 kiss her cheeks. A thousand flashbulbs illuminate the dark porch of 12 Holyoke Street; cameras capture this iconographic image for broadcast on television and publication in countless newspapers and magazines, from The Austin American Statesman to The Hindustan Times to this...
Afraid that adverse weather would ruin the parade, they decided to cancel the spectacle for the first time in its history. In its place, they staged a “photo op” on the porch. The traditional parade could be taken or left, but the executives of the show knew they could not get away without the traditional kiss on the cheek...