In response to some heavy prompting by a family member in Tucson, Arizona, I left my home of 40 years (which I’ve been guilty of referring to as “redneck Redding” in my less charitable...
Category: Opinion
You have probably seen the gut doctor’s warning by now. There is a vegetable that is making us fat, or sick, or worse. The warning doesn’t explain why we should throw the vegetable out, but the gut doctor is begging us to do it, so it must be serious.
(Editor’s note: This is an encore column that was originally published in 2013.) When asked to name some of my most challenging jobs, I tend to recall employment of my youth, before I turned...
For many people in the world, their religious or spiritual faith is a central or defining aspect of their identity and informs their relationship with the physical world. One definition of religion is “respect...
There is a lot in the news these days about federal legislation to protect consumers from surprise medical bills. Essentially this is the circumstance in which an individual is hospitalized at a PPO (Preferred...
Hello Clever People! Welcome to my review for the Richard Linklater film, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? This book to screen adaptation follows the story of Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett) who experiences a crisis in...
By the time you read this, I will have fled the country. I know a lot of people have threatened to fly the coop and head to Canada during the political shit storm we’ve...
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.” -Mahatma Gandhi Edward Davey has led an interesting life so far. He has...
• Each spring I buy pretty flowers for my flower pots and front flower beds, varieties like hydrangea, pink geranium, purple petunias (only purple), yellow primroses (only yellow) and one of my favorites; gorgeous,...
This may come as a shock to conservatives who’ve already voted by mail in tomorrow’s 1st Assembly District special primary election, but Megan Dahle may not be the “proven conservative” she’s advertised as being....
