By Lauren Rowe / El Inde In many ways, baseball is like life. You step up to the plate and swing at what is coming your way. You can hit it out of the park or strikeout. Life throws you curveballs and the way you approach them is the difference between winning and losing. Many…
By Angel Gonzalez / El Inde On sunny Tucson days, Nelson Payne spends his time outside at one of Tucson Racquet and Fitness Club’s practice courts. Here you will find him giving tennis lessons, often to young developing athletes or hosting group classes for players of different experience levels. The 58-year-old experienced tennis player and…
By Sam Burdette / El Inde The afternoon of Feb. 28, Gene C. Reid Park’s Barnum Hill wasn’t the serene, tree-shaded grassy area it usually is. There were no families toting old bread for the ducks as they walked alongside the south pond’s rocky border, and there were no picnics on the gently sloping hill,…
By Sunday Joyahnah Holland / El Inde When a migrant leaves their home country to pursue the “American dream” and doesn’t call to check in by the next week or so — their moms and their spouses and their siblings and their children and their friends start to get worried. And when they don’t get…
By Rachel Waller / El Inde Melissa Lewinsky, a young woman in her twenties, shares a one-bedroom apartment with her one roommate and five cats who make themselves very comfortable on the kitchen table, bathroom sinks and any open space they feel like getting into.
