Congratulations to the Ceramic Club’s Featured Artist, Lana Raptoplous. Lana has a longtime connection to PebbleCreek. She and her husband, Chris, were in the Phoenix area on business in 1997. They passed a billboard announcing “PebbleCreek Now Open!” and decided to stop by and check out the models and community. As so often happens, the following…
Interested in trying something new and creative? This class gives you the opportunity to try a new craft and see if it’s for you. Introduction to Ceramics offers you the basics of how to clean greenware and how to paint or glaze it as a final, fired piece! When you come back to pick it…
Have you heard it suggested the word “Bible” is an acronym for “Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth”? Even comedian George Carlin, famous for his clever observations of the human race, joked “I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re…
Curt Zimmerman The Men’s Christian Fellowship of PebbleCreek (MCFPC) first gathering of the 2025-26 season is set for Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 a.m. In the Tuscany Falls Chianti Room. The group of Christian men meets the first Wednesday of each month, October through May with special guest presenters focusing on an important or timely…
Barbara Bristow Barbara Jane (Brock) Bristow departed this earth on Aug. 15, 2025, at the age of 76. She passed away following emergency open-heart surgery at Banner University Hospital, Phoenix, Ariz. Barbara passed away peacefully and with dignity in the arms of her husband of 55 years, Dave, her son David of Richmond, Calif., and…
Dana Thomas An interest in birds began in elementary school for PebbleCreek (PC) year-round resident, Dana Thomas. He was camping in a tent with his brother, Danny, also a PC resident, in their backyard in Fairbanks, Alaska, one summer when a bird’s continuous singing made it difficult to sleep. Dana later determined that bird was…
AzOPT “It REALLY hurts.” Pain is a tough subject. It is subjective. Not to say that your pain is not real or to say something does not REALLY hurt. However, pain can be perpetuated, magnified, and catastrophized based on your perspective and attitude towards your pain experience. My Personal Experience with Pain as a Physical…
Poppy and Kona were rescued in May. Poppy (male dog) and Kona (female cat) lived with their mom and grandma in PebbleCreek. Their mom was the caregiver for their grandma. Mom did a good job of taking care of both Poppy and Kona, who were current on vaccines and were well known to the staff…
A special tribute from the residents of Indianola Dr. August 26 was National Dog Day, and to all the pups who bring so much joy to our PebbleCreek community, we say, “Happy National Dog Day!” This year, the residents of Indianola Dr. celebrated their four-legged friends with a special tribute to “The Real Pups of…
David Zapatka Reader, friend, and bridge player, Maria Davis, writes, “I ran across a word that was new for me today: ‘contronym’, a word that can have opposite meanings, like sanction or oversight. I ran across it playing a New York Times free online game called Connections—a fun daily quiz. A quick Google search turned…