Free Therapy # 67: Why We Suffer
“Yes, the answer lies within So why not take a look now?” Cat Stevens I was about 16 or 17 when I awakened to the fact I was sleeping. And by sleeping, I mean a kind of spiritual snooze. I… Continue Reading
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Free Therapy # 66: Hurt People Hurt People
“Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me.” They were an older couple, in their 50s. She was a receptionist and he was a security guard, both with alcoholic histories, but thanks to AA and perseverance,… Continue Reading
Heroes of the Sea
I have a confession: I am a Royal Naval Lifeboat Institution (“RNLI”) Geek. Maybe even a little bit of a Lifeboat Groupie. I love the Lifeboat for lots of reasons but honestly in large part it’s because the Lifeboat is… Continue Reading
Spiders!
Arachnophobes beware! The Sacramento River has been taken over by big, black spiders. Well, not really. But, as almost everyone who walks the Sacramento River Trail has noticed, there has been a tremendous increase in both spiders and webs in… Continue Reading
A Youthful Cast Lends Some Pizazz to Shasta College’s ‘Guys and Dolls’
On-stage chemistry can be an elusive element in musicals, and especially in student productions. Happily, both the guys and the dolls have it in abundance in the Shasta College production of “Guys and Dolls.” There is a lot to enjoy… Continue Reading
Oh, Dear! What Can the Meta Be?
In this, our Age of the Selfie, why shouldn’t the drama be as solipsistic as any other cultural artifact? Hence the proliferation, nowadays, of plays about players and playwrights. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), ever in the vanguard, has served… Continue Reading
Night at the End of the Tunnel
In the five years since he’s moved to Ashland, director Christopher Liam Moore has distinguished himself bringing American modernist theater to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF). He’s made full use of the Bowmer Theater, OSF’s hi-tech proscenium stage, to project… Continue Reading
Village History All Around Me
Unbelievably, in a few days it will be seven years since I first came to this coastal Highland village. My “old life” back in the States almost seems like it belonged to someone else; here, in a place where families… Continue Reading
Free Therapy # 65: Love, Loss and Lamentation
Each man’s death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. John Donne I was about 10 years old when I first saw death. It was 1966 and I was in Sunday school at Bruen Chapel, a Methodist church in… Continue Reading
Redding Council Rejects Wildly Unpopular Energy Rate Restructure Proposal
With a surprising unanimous vote, the Redding City Council pulled the plug on a proposed rate restructuring that had been met with near-universal opposition. Rather than schedule an August public hearing on the proposal, as Redding Electric Utility had… Continue Reading
