When you work at home, it’s just a short jaunt to agoraphobia. Agoraphobia — from the Greek for “there are teen-agers wearing baseball caps backward in my neighborhood” — is the fear of open spaces. It is a serious psychological… Continue Reading
Oh my, the interesting things one finds on Food for Thought forums, information you just won’t see in the local paper. For example, see what our own brainiac techno wizard Jim G. posted after he did some math-based research and analyzed the numbers reported in E.W.… Continue Reading
(Note from Doni: I met Lori Whitmore more than three years ago when her little “Cheddar” – her son Chad Whitmore – was sick, and I wrote a column about a fundraiser to help with the family’s medical expenses. Later, Lori took… Continue Reading
Kelly Brewer recently posted an interesting blog about Shasta County politics in which she asked, “Where are the women?” Actually, she was even more emphatic than that: “WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?” Kelly then listed a sample of Shasta County women renowned for getting things done… Continue Reading
You might not realize it, as we still seem to be in the depths of winter, but now is the time to start preparing for allergy season. If you find yourself sneezing your head off in March, April and May,… Continue Reading
The relationship between trees and lawns can range from harmonious to horrendous. As the gardener, you’re the shepherd who decides the fate. In a quality landscape, lawns and trees need each other like stars need the night and a sailboat… Continue Reading
Youngest son Joseph left home nearly two years ago to be with the love of his life, Marie. She happens to live in the Czech Republic.
We haven’t seen Joe nor Marie since they married in June in Ostrava.
Since then we’ve communicated almost daily via e-mails (he is our Web master, and Food for Thought’s founder), letters, packages and instant Gmail messaging and phone calls, which cost nearly nothing since my smarty-pants son arranged a 530 area-code number for his direct line in Ostrava.
Even so, none of those replace the joy of seeing my son and daughter-in-law in person.
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When you work at home, your house is your co-worker. And, like co-workers everywhere, sometimes it’ll turn on you. You’ll be working along, trying to hit some deadline, when the house will offer some minor distraction or major catastrophe. Next… Continue Reading
Like any large buzzing and gurgling international city, Paris is filled with pigeons. I doubt that the city fact-keepers have a number for the pigeon population, but it must be in the zillions. Pigeons are a fact of city life;… Continue Reading
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