Online Dating Takes a Strong Heart, Mind and Stomach

It’s been almost a year since I paid for a 6-month subscription to Match.com. At the time I also signed up for eHarmony, but my computer didn’t like the site’s graphics, so I ditched it within 24 hours and was left with just Match.com. Within the next 11 months I eventually signed up for two [...]

Letter to the Editor: Hawkins Exec Clarifies Property Tax Facts

“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson   Hawkins Companies has a commitment to provide truthful, accurate and timely information to the public. After making statements recently about new property taxes that were not consistent with the above ethos we checked with the Shasta [...]

Menu Please: Golden Lantern – Have Wok, Need Flavor

Did you ever see “Eat Drink Man Woman”? The story revolves around a gifted, skilled chef who has lost his sense of taste. (It’s the same exact plot as “Tortilla Soup,” where the characters are Mexican-American instead of Chinese.) Or how about the Food Network show, “Restaurant: Impossible” in which beefy Robert Irvine, on a [...]

Norwegian with Redding Ties Ponders Mass Murderer’s Crime and Punishment

I was sitting on the floor with my 5-month-old daughter. A friend was over and I was helping her plan the flowers for her upcoming wedding. Suddenly we heard a loud noise. I looked up at the sky thinking, “Weird, it doesn’t look like the weather for a lightening storm.” We talked for a few [...]

Mistress of the Mix: My Rebel Heart Salutes You

Stop the presses! I had already written this week’s kind of ho-hum column and emailed it off to Doni when this sweet little pearl of a story dropped into my lap that actually relates to one of the songs on today’s associated playlist, and I decided to do a complete rewrite of the column. It’s [...]

Just Sayin’: To Pun or Not to Pun

So just what is it about puns that some folks reject out of hand and others just adore? Some great minds have posited that puns are the lowest form of humor. And we all know that the using of a pun will garner you moans and groans … or worse! Why? Hmmm, good question, for [...]

A New Column, ‘For the Love of Thrift’

I’ve always loved vintage.

For some reason, though, my love has grown the past couple of years. Maybe it’s because I’m getting older, and I’m finally just figuring out who I really am. Or maybe it’s because I like sifting through people’s cast-offs at yard sales, estate sales and thrift stores, looking for the perfect treasure. Whatever the case, I truly enjoy it.

Land Use For Taxes: Churn Creek Bottom Shopping Center Benefits are Short-lived, Short-Sighted

Unfortunately, it appears that at least some people involved in local government do not understand what a bad idea it is to allow short term fiscal gains to dictate long term land use policy. What that does is to create land use that makes no sense except to those who will benefit directly from the [...]

Mistress of the Mix: Martini Music

I’ve got a situation. As some of you public radio fans out there may know, Jefferson Public Radio has been holding it’s Spring membership drive for the past week. It’s that moment when the entire staff puts our lives on hold,  dedicating ourselves to reminding listeners that it’s called ‘listener supported public radio’ for a [...]