(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...
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• 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,...
Please join me today in welcoming Kathryn Barker to aNewsCafe.com. Kathryn, who also answers to Kate, owns Oregon Street Antique Mall in Redding, a place she has recently sold. But before Oregon Street, Kate...
Just since April … • Today was typical for me. I was running late (as usual). I raced to my car, unlocked the door, stuck the key in the ignition, turned it, and waited...
Raise your hand if it seems a lot longer than six months since A News Cafe opened the Carr Fire Scholarship Auction for bidding. To refresh your memory, you can click here to see a...
Join me in welcoming Jodi Fogelin to ANC today as we discuss the opening of Old Shasta Coffee Company on Eureka Way in Redding, owned by Jodi and Eric Fogelin. Hi, Jodi. Welcome to ANC,...
Poor Joe. Yet a fourth woman has alleged that former Vice President Joe Biden behaved inappropriately toward them. There is speculation that these allegations could not just tank Biden’s run for the 2020 presidency,...
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 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...
