Just a bit of personal information, after a message from someone who disliked that I asked if they had ever considered anti-depressants:I took Zoloft and Prozac for several years in conjunction with visiting a therapist. They kept me functioning until I could learn the tools necessary to keep myself from drownin

A couple more things accomplished.Took the tarps off the woodpiles and sent tarps into the recycle can. The one on the big woodpile out in the yard had some accumulated rainwater and leaves & gunk that had been fermenting in the sun about a week. I cannot describe how unbelievably BAD it smelled.

A couple years ago I read “The Last American Man” – Elizabeth Gilbert’s biography of Eustace Conway, a man who escaped to the wilderness, lived off the land and encouraged others to do the same. If you’ve read “Eat, Pray, Love,” then you know Elizabeth Gilbert and she plays a part in Eustace’s story.

V. good day. Other than the rabbit business, I mean.The street numbers had fallen down so I retrieved them from the weeds & grass & iris, nailed them to a board, and then nailed that onto the post. Much better.Mowed lots of the yard.Two loads of laundry hanging out to dry (it's 86

Being photographers, we spend almost all our time doing projects for other people and every now and then we take a little time to do a personal project for ourselves. We are looking for male and female dancers between the age of 16-23 to work with us to create a special peice of art. All types [...]

Dirt needn’t be a scary place, not when the whole of the north state has some of the tastiest dirt on the planet. Tasty singletrack. Mountain biker gold. Starting May 6, Redding Mountain Biking members Bill and Lori Hyres will begin a four-week beginner mountain biker class that will progress newbies from the

Jun Nakamiya - Central Coast Tournament White Belt Champion!

What really is normal?I often think about how our perceptions are often very much unlike reality.Liz and I often discuss what we usually see in others is not a true representation of the person, but ra

(Candace #16) — Greg of Greg’s Plate gave his two cents recently about Ben Stein’s new documentary, “Expelled,” which is prompting me to add my own. (Multiply that by 100, and you’ve got yourself a whole gallon of gas.) I’m not a big Ben Stein fan. I find his voice — and eyeb

Somewhere in my house at this very moment is a live rabbit.Somewhere.EDIT:Rabbit has been located and moved outside to berry bushes. Yaz has been spoken to about bringing in rabbits.

Due to some serious blog trolls that have emerged from beneath some bridges around here, I'm taking a blog hiatus for a while....  Thanks for reading, and see you all in a few weeks!

Two examples of how the world's changed, spotted in Dunsmuir yesterday. Satellite dishes --one as big as a radio telescope, the other the size of a medium pizza. A Grateful Dead handbill from a concert at the Avalon Ballroom, on...

The other day a nurse that works for me referred to me as "Mr. Rogers."Do you remember Mr. Rogers, the PBS Children's show? "Wont you be...Wont you be...Wont you be my Neighbor"

The Good News Rescue Mission will honor its 11th graduating class of the New Life Recovery Program at 6:30 p.m. Friday.

The Shasta County Talent Search for youths 18 and younger will be held at 5:45 p.m. May 9 at the food court of the Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding.

JUNCTION CITY -- The sixth annual Bodhisattva Peace Training will be held Friday through next Sunday at Chagdud Gonpa, the Tibetan Buddhist retreat center.

The League of Women Voters will moderate a forum for Shasta County supervisor District 2 candidates at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Old Shasta School on French Alley and Highway 299 in Shasta.

SHASTA LAKE -- Shasta County residents can dispose of their household hazardous wastes for free Saturday at the Shasta Gateway Industrial Park off Ashby Road.

Lovely Saturday afternoon at the Civic Center -- played a 15 minute set, with sound provided by Peter of the Traveling Bohemians. Always a treat. You can see a snippet of video on

Next time you’re pushing a shopping cart in Shasta County through the grocery store or walking past a downtown Redding motel, chances are you’ll pass by at least one convicted felon on parole. Shasta County has the third highest number of parolees per capita in the state, behind only Yuba and Alp

Tehama County officials say they're losing as much as $70,000 in road-maintenance funds to Shasta County because of a quirk in the way car registration fees are distributed.

James Wilson had just one plan for a relaxing afternoon in 2003 — take a nap. But, according to Wilson, God had other ideas.

Do you ever feel you’ve walked into an episode of “The Twilight Zone?” So much weirdness surrounds you that it couldn’t possibly be real?

Although law enforcement officials in Shasta County say they’re really good at sending criminals to prison, many argue that the state’s prison system isn’t so great at making sure ex-inmates don’t end up behind bars soon after they’re released. The numbers speak for themselves.

SEATTLE — Timothy Garon’s face and arms are hauntingly skeletal, but the fluid building up in his abdomen makes the 56-year-old musician look eight months pregnant. His liver, ravaged by hepatitis C, is failing.

My wife and I showed up a little early to the Red Bluff Round-Up Association's "Dance-A-Bullooza" event April 19 and overheard a rather interesting conversation.

WASHINGTON — The electoral road to the White House favors Democrats this fall — either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton — and has Republican John McCain playing defense to thwart a presidential power shift.

Parolee Kenneth Urbon Jr. fidgeted in a plastic lawn chair under the eaves of his mother’s home Tuesday as a Redding police officer stood nearby watching him squirm. Just months before his parole term expired, Urbon, 43, who has a history of drug-related convictions, was nervous.

Parents of a Redding teenager say he needed a series of painful rabies shots after he picked up a bat at Shasta High School.

SHASTA LAKE -- Saturday's Shasta Damboree celebration, as well as the city's anniversary fete, should be twice as much fun from previous years.

Graduation season has begun. Simpson University's spring commencement took place Saturday morning, and graduates included the school's first class of bachelor's of nursing students.

California owes Tehama County’s Mental Health Division about $1 million in back Medi-Cal payments, and the county wants its money.

Red Grammer, who has won critical acclaim for writing and performing contemporary children's music, will make his California debut with a Grandparents' Day concert at the State Theatre next Sunday.

The 87th annual Red Bluff Round-Up closed last Sunday, capping off a week of festivities. Residents and visitors participated in a variety of activities, with a decidedly Western theme to celebrate the popular event.

Salmon have an almost mystical ability to return to their home stream, reversing their youthful journey from headwaters to ocean when it's time to spawn.

Our readers have always been outspoken. Now, what used to be confined to letters to the editor and an occasional story contribution has become a minute-by-minute conversation on Redding.com.