From January to April of this year, I taught a nine-week class at First United Methodist Church based on The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris. As I previously explained, Harris helps us understand how our efforts to “get happy” are… Continue Reading
A 1,000-foot-long slip-and-slide requiring 15,000 gallons of water. On Placer Street between Orange and Chestnut streets. In the middle of July. In the middle of a withering drought. Piece of cake, according to the two young Redding men who pitched… Continue Reading
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about language, ideas, even the phrase each other doesn’t… Continue Reading
There are loads of things I miss about the USA, and near the top of the list are the wonderful restaurants I had practically at my doorstep – and the fast food chains I furtively visited in the dark hours… Continue Reading
Meet Brian Grigsby. Full disclosure: he’s my much older fraternal twin brother (by 3 minutes). Brian is a teacher at Shasta High School and the 2014 recipient of the National Space Club Explorer’s Award and has hit me in the… Continue Reading
In its ongoing efforts to bolster public safety—and public perception—a divided Redding City Council voted Tuesday to make it illegal to sit, sprawl, sleep or camp on sidewalks in the downtown area or any other business district. Whether police officers… Continue Reading
On rare occasions in my life, I’ve suffered momentary break-downs when sudden waves of sorrow would sweep over me in a storm of tears that wrenched up out of me in sobbing pleas and prayers; petitions to some unknown force for answers that never came. Continue Reading
My Highland village is full of ‘incomers’ like me. I have found that some of them reinvent their past to create a history more interesting than the truth, and didn’t I miss my chance at that?! It never even occurred… Continue Reading
I had no right to take my mother for granted but I did it anyway. I knew she would die one day but I refused to think about it and even worse, I carefully concealed the fact of my avoidance from myself. That way I did not struggle. No conflict. Continue Reading
On the same day Shasta County supervisors OK’d the hiring of five sheriff’s deputies at a cost of $910,000, the Redding City Council voted unanimously to make a one-time withdrawal from the general fund reserves to add four officers to… Continue Reading
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