Free Therapy # 57: Chasing Happy
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life...
View ArticleShasta College to Stage Ken Kesey’s Iconic ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’
A lot of people watched “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” the winner of five Oscars that starred Jack Nicholson as the protagonist Randall McMurphy, a mental hospital patient who battled the...
View ArticleMatt’s Chats: Meet Andrew J Ditton – Living in an Airstream in the South East...
1) Who are you and what’s your deal? I’m Andrew J Ditton, and ‘my’ Deal is the seaside town of Deal in the county of Kent, North of Dover in the South East of...
View ArticlePolice Reinforcements and Water Conservation Highlight a Busy Council Session
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...
View ArticleFree Therapy # 58: To Make You Feel My Love
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...
View ArticleA Village Enigma
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...
View ArticleFree Therapy # 59: Our Purpose Here
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...
View ArticleRedding Council Oks a Sit-lie Ordinance for Sidewalks; Disbands the Business...
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...
View ArticleMatt’s Chats: Meet the Other Grigsby – Brother Brian
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...
View ArticleScottish Food-To-Go
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...
View ArticleFree Therapy # 60: There is no Other
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...
View ArticleRedding Council Gets First Look at Proposed 1,000-foot Slip ‘N Slide Project;...
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,...
View ArticleFree Therapy # 61: Chasing Happy (2)
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...
View ArticleRedding City Council Disbands Downtown Business District, Renews Tourism...
The death knell has sounded for the downtown Redding Business Improvement District, following a 4-1 vote by the Redding City Council on Tuesday to disband it. Members of the soon-to-be-idle Downtown...
View Article“Lang May Yer Lum Reek”
When I was about to move to Scotland someone asked innocently, “Are you going to have to learn to speak Scottish?” I blinked a bit at that, and the next question was, “Did I...
View ArticleFree Therapy # 62: Chasing Happy (3) – The Observing Mind and Thinking Mind...
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...
View ArticleRedding Council Moves to Bolster Police Records Management, Renew a Hotel...
In a relatively quick and drama-free meeting, the Redding City Council took action Tuesday to streamline police record keeping, reiterate its support of a 2 percent “bed” tax to fund tourism marketing...
View ArticleMuch Ado Makes for Much ‘I Do’
From Shaw’s “Pygmalion” to “Fifty Shades of Grey,” we, as audiences, love to see confirmed bachelors or bachelorettes inveigled into marriage. The more louche or outré the singleton the better. It...
View ArticleFree Therapy # 63: Chasing Happy (4)
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...
View ArticleFord Tri-Motor Offers Flights Back to the Golden Age of Airline Travel
Parked on the tarmac, it looks like an Art Deco travel poster that’s come to life, with its rakish cockpit aimed skyward toward an exotic destination. In the air, it looks not so much...
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