Caution: This column is a major personal TMI dump. If you’re not in the mood for that today, you may want to skip this one. I was 9 the first time anyone, let alone my mother, pointed out my weight… Continue Reading
I may have mentioned a time or 200 that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. The flip side is that few things can make me feel more depressed than a Thanksgiving where I’m not cooking, something I’ve experienced a few times… Continue Reading
Today we chat with Armando Mejorado, a Redding artist and entrepreneur. We’ve featured Armando on A News Cafe.com before, both with and without his life partner, Gary Desmond, who died in June of 2014. Over the years Gary and Armando… Continue Reading
Today we speak with Randy Smith, a co-coordinator of Redding’s Annual Community Cleanup that took place Oct. 3. The turn-out was massive, and so were the results. Q: Randy Smith, first, congratulations on your 10th year as a co-coordinator of the… Continue Reading
A few weeks ago I was attacked by a swarm of yellowjackets while putting something away in a friend’s old garage. Before that day, I wasn’t one of those those people who’d feared bees or other stinging creatures, so when… Continue Reading
I don’t remember the exact date when friend Canda founded our group made up of a few dozen of her women friends. I do know it was so long ago that we all still had kids living at home. For… Continue Reading
I burned through at least one – sometimes two – hand mixers annually for the first eight years of my marriage to my kids’ dad. It wasn’t that I was a cooking roughneck, but I pushed my little hand mixers… Continue Reading
I hate feeling like a traitor when I visit another city, and when I compare it to where I live, Redding looks like some sad little turd of a town. So it was last weekend when I visited a friend… Continue Reading
Food rarely photographs as well as I’d like, which certainly is the case with this dish that I invented, Summer Pasta Stacks. I prepared it last month for a fundraiser to benefit Kids Turn Shasta Cascade, where about 140 guests… Continue Reading
Recent Comments