Q. “Our 5-month-old German shepherd jumps up on people. He already weighs 60 pounds and we’re afraid he will hurt my mother-in-law. Will he eventually outgrow this?” You could wait the 10 or 12 years it will take for him to become too arthritic to jump up, or

I moved to Redding when I was 5,  so I’m familiar with the whole Rodeo Week thing. But I always wonder what goes through the minds of Redding newcomers and visitors who experience Rodeo Week  and all its activities for the first time.

By now, hopefully you’ve read my first column about selecting good garden site, incorporated lots of good compost and weeding it bare! But, even if you are still in the process of soil preparation, lets talk about what t

The most amazing snake stories slithered into our living room the other evening between six friends. Fun, fun, fun. For more than an hour these incredible tales crawled between me, Bruce and two couples. Basically, we had ourselves a snake-telling extravaganza. I cannot choose my favorite snake story, beca

A blindfolded man held his hands over a row of four steak knives. Three were point-down and one stood point-up. A tense crowd in the Chico City Plaza watched. The knives were covered, and, like the blindfolded man, the crowd didn’t know which one was standing on its handle. Or at least, it seemed like th