Note from Doni: Renae Tolbert, a talented photographer, writer and stellar human being, died early this morning after a long illness. Her work graced aNewsCafe.com where she shared her love of the outdoors and...
Author: Doni Chamberlain
I didn’t choose Redding. I arrived here at the age of 5 via train from Vancouver, B.C., along with my mother and three sisters. Redding was not my New-York-born mother’s choice, either, and she...
It’s been decades since I took my first knitting class at a Redding craft store that no longer exists. I was clumsy, far from a natural, although I did manage to learn to knit...
“It Could Always Be Worse” is a Yiddish folk tale I loved to read to my kids when they were young. It was about a man who visited his rabbi to complain about how unbearable...
SUNDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: REU restored power to my neighborhood. Thank you, REU. I will never take my electricity for granted again. ### I hope that by the time you read this I’m sitting in...
Every year, especially around the holidays, I wish for snow. All those years of wishes came true Tuesday night and on into Wednesday morning. When the first flakes fell Tuesday evening, I joked about...
Last night, it was a fun novelty as the snow began to fall. I chimed in on FB with my snow photos, sure that by morning, all the snow would be gone, and we’d...
Never am I more aware of how ramped up and divided America is than when I watch the contrast of civility and kindness exhibited on “The Great British Bake Off”, my current favorite means...
