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Desert Lady Diaries

Jul 29, 2019

Kim Fulleman's first experience with the desert were as a Girl Scout, visiting Joshua Tree National Park to camp and hike. Kim and her friends would find the biggest rock formation they could  – and climb it.
 
After 20 years in a 400 square foot Hollywood apartment, Kim was ready for a change. She was feeling like it...


Jul 23, 2019

Christine Anthony’s first experience with the desert was on a commercial shoot at the Glamis sand dunes in southern California.  She’d picked up this commercial production job after arriving in LA on a greyhound bus from Cleveland, OH with $7 in her pocket, having followed her rock-n-roll boyfriend to the West...


Jul 16, 2019

A lifetime of careers with Parks and Recreation, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the National Park Service, as well as being a Jazzercise instructor, radio ad executive, secondary social studies teacher and director of a youth drug prevention program, Carmen Mendoza is finding her soul back in the Mojave desert, returning...


Jul 9, 2019

Brenda first visited the desert as a young girl on family camping trips and those visits continued into her teen years as a destination for soul-searching and wandering the space. 
 
Needing a change, Brenda made the move to the desert with her horses. Upon arriving, she found she had many friends here and immediately...


Jul 2, 2019

Lisa Rae Black remembers her first experience with the desert as a visit to Grandpa's house - he lived in Morongo Valley. As a five-year old, she recalls jumping out of the back of her dad's 280Z, feeling like she'd landed on Mars. Fast forward about 50 years, Lisa inherited the property from her now deceased brother,...