CrowMac Creek

Leigh Ann Little  I am not sure how I will address this new blog entry. I can't even come up with an appropriate title. The two deaths of my very favorite people in two days just seem more than I can handle. But at 74, I suppose I will need to continue these tributes.      I quietly, hopelessly and secretly fell in love with Leigh Ann in July of 2010. I had just completed the two most awful years I had ever experienced in teaching and had gained thirty pounds in the process. Let's just say I was not feeling too good about myself. I had just moved to Kansas and didn't have much going for me at the time when John Turbayne called asking me if I wanted to meet him at a friend's home. "Of course!" I responded, and John gave me directions to Leigh Ann's home. She was petite, attractive and the most intelligent person I had ever met. We all conversed, and I had an extremely enjoyable evening. Later, I had the opportunity to see her again, though only on a few occ...

  Back to Arizona and to Nature     It's been a long while, too long since I had access to the back country, but I have returned. Don't get me wrong though. I enjoyed my life in Kansas. I met and enjoyed sharing time with Linda Taylor, Mike Kudlac, Dwayne Joe and many others        I met and fell in love with Laura Mikels, but my time with her ended with her untimely death at age 45. After her loss, I knew that I needed to move on.           I have long been complaining that I had nowhere to go where I was far enough away from civilization to enjoy the feeling one gets when hiking, running or biking up a mountain trail, and then finding the peace that can only be derived from natures'  grandeur.     Now I am in Arizona I feel Fulfilled.

 Larry Bidtah, one of my closest friends and fellow teacher passed on February 15th, 2024. He died after a long struggle with cancer. He was good man and he was a person who worked with students with emotional problems. With his even personality, he gained the trust and respect of each of his students.  He spent an enjoyable summer with me. We explored and hiked all around the Navajo Reservation. But the last time I saw him, I had been angry with him and, even though I may have had a reason to be angry, I should not have treated him the way I did.  After everything, I realized what I had done. I tried to find him countless times, all without success. I tried to find him again today and this is what I found found: Lawrence Bidtah Good friends are few, it seems, and those relationships are well worth whatever we can do to keep them alive.  I have written about CrowMac Creek in the past, and many of the residents at CrowMac Creek have moved from this life to the next. T...