If I had a dollar for every time I had a request to make this Sour Cream Coffee Cake, I’d be retired and living on a beach in Hawaii by now. I’ve been making this recipe for so long that… Continue Reading
Making tiny cakes is my new passion. I can make it any almost flavor except carrot cake (too chunky for a cake that small). These cakes are made from scratch, and feature my twin’s chickens’ organic eggs. The cakes are… Continue Reading
This is the piece that inspired this first Online Auction to Benefit ANC’s Carr Fire Scholarship Fund. (Click here to read how it all started.) Donated by aNewsCafe.com’s own Deborah Segelitz, she commissioned Paul Jones, world-famous Welsh glass artist, of… Continue Reading
Donated by Redding artist and ANC subscriber Connie Koch, her mirrored glass mosaic sculpture on heart-shaped wood is a stunning wall-hanging with Phoenix-like mirrored wings that spread across this one-of-a-kind 13-by-13 inch piece. It has a wire on the back… Continue Reading
Popular north-state art teacher and gifted oil painter Chuck Prudhomme describes himself as a storyteller with a brush. That’s exactly what he accomplished with his piece, “Fire Watch”. This 12-by-24-inch wood-framed oil painting shows someone perched on a horse’s back,… Continue Reading
Donated by ANC subscriber and Redding native Candace Corbin in memory of her mother, Nadine Tucker, this large, framed winter print of ‘The Tomten’ behind glass was one of Nadine’s favorites, especially during Christmastime, when she would deck out her… Continue Reading
Donated by ANC subscriber and Redding native Candace Corbin in memory of her mother, Nadine Tucker, this ‘Quebec Street in Winter’ watercolor was painted by Mary Spivey, a well-known California artist. Spivey also lived in Redding, and was one of… Continue Reading
Editor’s note: This is The Dopamine Chronicles No. 2. Click here to read No. 1. There’s a game we play with ourselves concerning health matters. If someone we love exhibits symptoms of a chronic or life-threatening illness, we are quick… Continue Reading
Note: This is the column I started a few days before the Carr Fire. I think it’s OK to bring it out now. • I had an interesting exchange at a store last night when I got to the counter and… Continue Reading
We were fortunate over the spring and summer, here in the far north of Scotland. By all accounts it was the longest period of great weather since the 1950s. We took a few drives, had mostly clear weather for the… Continue Reading
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