1989. My husband and I were litigation attorneys practicing in New York and had been invited to lecture before the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in Phoenix. I had had my own firm in Garden City, NY and my husband was a then partner of Phillips Nizer, in Manhattan. For several years prior, I had been in charge of planning the annual Continuing Legal Education seminars for the NewYork chapter of the AAML and had tried, unsuccessfully, to make reservations at The Boulders in Carefree, it being one of the premier boutique resorts and golf communities as cited by Andrew Harper’s “Hideaway Report”. But our group was not of a “Hideaway” size and it simply could not be accommodated. We, however, could be. And so, lectures concluded, we journeyed up to Carefree, climbed the mysterious and inexplicably beautiful boulder pile just as the sun was about to set, gazed out onto what was then endless desert and mountain vistas……and fell hopelessly in love. Neither of us ever thought we would leave New York, but we knew this is where we would live. It was a dream that neither of us had ever considered before, but a dream we then knew would have to be realized.Continue...
