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Doni Greenberg

I believe in fate. But I also believe in paddling my own canoe and setting my own course.

I believe it does takes a village to raise a healthy child. But I also believe it takes a village to create a healthy planet, help those who need it most and prepare a delicious feast.

I believe we do get by with a little help from our friends. But I also believe that sometimes, our best work is done alone.

I believe we can judge others’ goodness and character by how they treat all God’s creatures, especially the least and most vulnerable among us.

I believe we need good food and drink to nourish, inspire and delight us, and time spent feeding others is one of the greatest gifts we can give each other.

I believe our village is crowded with seemingly ordinary villagers who possess extraordinary talents.

Let’s go find them.

And don’t forget to stop and eat along the way.

Doni Greenberg is an award-winning journalist who lives with her husband Bruce, a fine-furniture craftsman, in the very tiny town of Igo, California.

She is an identical twin. Doni also has three grown children. Her daughter and son live in California, and their younger brother lives in the Czech Republic.

For a decade Doni was a popular opinion columnist and food writer for the Record Searchlight in Redding, California. There, her writing excellence was recognized by the Associated Press, the California Newspaper Publishers Association and E.W. Scripps.

In 2007 Doni received the Woman of Achievement Community Award from the American Association of University Women.

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Kelly Brewer

I like cream in my coffee. I leave the porch light on. I dream in color.

I enjoy encouraging people to be better than they think they can be.

I question authority and speak my mind, and why not?

I find answers in music, writing and service above self. Sometimes I find answers on the ceiling.

Very important: Higher education. Butter, not margarine. The direct-address comma. Thank-you notes. Santa hats. Accuracy. Loyalty. Birthday cakes.

Responsible grownups set a tone, a standard, a course and an example. The greatest crime is building oneself up by tearing others down. The greatest triumph is living well among the morning glories.

Nobody’s perfect, but everybody has a moral obligation to get better. It’s called evolution. I believe in that, too.

Kelly is a lifelong journalist who has helped create and shape websites, newspapers, textbooks, novels, magazines, advertising, newsletters, book proposals, screenplays, doctoral theses, marketing campaigns, financial strategies, treatises, tomes, resumes, menus, poetry, songs and love letters. She’s even been known to edit entire limbs from large mulberry trees. Lately she’s been eyeing a few obnoxious people.

She credits her parents for teaching her how to love reading, play chess, shuffle cards, drive a stick, change a tire, roast a chicken, sing harmony, bounce back, work hard, play fair and tell the truth.

She lives in Redding, Calif., with her husband, novelist Steve Brewer, and two good-hearted, unruly, overgrown sons.

Journalist’s Creed

I believe in the profession of journalism.

I believe that the public journal is a public trust; that all connected with it are, to the full measure of their responsibility, trustees for the public; that acceptance of a lesser service than the public service is betrayal of this trust.

I believe that clear thinking and clear statement, accuracy and fairness are fundamental to good journalism.

I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.

I believe that suppression of the news, for any consideration other than the welfare of society, is indefensible.

I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one’s own pocketbook is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual responsibility may not be escaped by pleading another’s instructions or another’s dividends.

I believe that advertising, news and editorial columns should alike serve the best interests of readers; that a single standard of helpful truth and cleanness should prevail for all; that the supreme test of good journalism is the measure of its public service.

I believe that the journalism which succeeds best — and best deserves success — fears God and honors Man; is stoutly independent, unmoved by pride of opinion or greed of power, constructive, tolerant but never careless, self-controlled, patient, always respectful of its readers but always unafraid, is quickly indignant at injustice; is unswayed by the appeal of privilege or the clamor of the mob; seeks to give every man a chance and, as far as law and honest wage and recognition of human brotherhood can make it so, an equal chance; is profoundly patriotic while sincerely promoting international good will and cementing world-comradeship; is a journalism of humanity, of and for today’s world.