There’s a special breed of people who spend their lives waiting each year for two anticipated sounds: the sound of the first leaf to fall, trumpeting the beginning of the fall season, and the soon-to-follow first snowflake hitting ground. The… Continue Reading
Frankie Hawkins, at 5’4″ and 120 pounds soaking wet was the smallest amongst our band of adolescents. With hair like new-mown hay, blue eyes of winter and freckles from ear to ear, you would expect he would have friends with… Continue Reading
Let a local jazz DJ lay a Miles Davis sound on the airwaves – which is at least twice a day and I remember the many dimensions of the man few people ever saw. Davis, who died Sept. 28, 1991,… Continue Reading
Blame it on Michelle, one of the knowledgeable volunteers at the Redding Public Library. I was looking for a particularly arcane section of the library and she passed me by pushing a cartload of books. I strode at her side… Continue Reading
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