I HAVE TO COOK
I have to cook so I can be sure of something...
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June 30, 2026
My Constitutional Amendment
Over one-half of U.S. House of Representatives members and two-thirds of Senate members are, at least, millionaires. Of the top forty-five wealthiest Congress folk, the highest net worth sits at…
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May 1, 2026
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If you want people to love you, maybe try not being horrible. “My idea of revolution is of the search for individual happiness through collective happiness, which is the only…
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December 18, 2025
It’s REAL — A Note from the Publisher: CUSSING
...so it was F-bomb here and F-bomb there and it felt very free and madcap, and we were just a bunch of carefree, cussing hippies experimenting our way to making the world fit to live in.
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November 5, 2025
Announcing the winners of the first-ever NPR Student Podcast Challenge.
Fort Bragging!
Fort Bragg High School is very PROUD!
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September 26, 2025
It’s REAL — A Note from the Publisher — June 2025
Sometimes, the Universe lines up in mysterious ways...
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June 6, 2025
It’s REAL. A Note from the Publisher.
Is History Subversive? Back at old History Central again. Last month I wrote about Chamberlain's extra-bad gamble of trying to appease Hitler, and Churchill's wondering if the free world would…
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May 1, 2025
Consequences Part II
We seem to be having a situation here in our beautiful, wise democracy, our most marvelous, shared homeland, against which we have faithfully leaned all these years in the assumption…
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April 2, 2025
Big, Mean, and Mad. Drawing by Chuck Hathaway
CHUCK: It’s REAL | A Note from the Publisher
Chuck Hathaway could draw anything.
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February 2, 2025
WHACK! Pickleball Takes Over the Coast!
If a tennis ball were hit with the power behind that whack, the ball might sail right over the chain link fence onto a neighbor’s lawn across the street. If…
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February 2, 2025
Nathan Burger—wild Color 19
It’s REAL–A Note from the Publisher
How can we find compassion and understanding in a severly divided world?
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December 29, 2024
The original copy of Non-Violence, was bought by the Luxembourg government and offered to the United Nations in 1988. It was said then that: 'With Non-Violence, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd has not only endowed the United Nations with a cherished work of art; he has enriched the consciousness of humanity with a powerful symbol. It is a symbol that encapsulates, in a few simple curves, the greatest prayer of man: that which asks not for victory,
but for peace.'
It’s REAL: A Note from the Publisher: Non-Violence
In this critical moment in our country and our world, the message I interpret from Schmidt's more than one thousand letters home and articles he wrote about his experiences in Germany eighty years ago is loud and clear: Don’t do this again.
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September 26, 2024
The crowd listens to presentations at the Fall 2023 event
Put the Women in Charge
The Collective Giving Circle Pools Funds and Energy to Support the Vital Work of Local Nonprofits
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September 26, 2024
Letters Home 80 Years Later
Dana Schmidt, as a twenty-three-year-old, fresh-out-of-college journalist, was thrust into the maelstrom of 1938 Germany at one of history's most dramatic turning points.
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September 4, 2024
Outside the Sines Art & Cultural Center, words from Portugal's most revered poets are memorialized on the sidewalk.
It’s REAL: Travel and Revolution
The pen, essentially, is mightier around here.
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July 11, 2024
Lunch at Redwood Coast Seniors is a convivial time for members and friends.
The Dilemma of Dementia Caring for the Caregivers: There Is Something You Can Do
Caring for loved ones with dementia is a sad and frightening subject, but please don’t look away. There is something you can do for caregivers that will make a big difference!
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June 5, 2024
Booker T and the MGs was the house band at STAX for many years, playing backup on hundreds of award-winning albums.
It’s REAL: Road Tripping
Only a few blocks from Aretha Franklin’s childhood home, almost across the street from where Isaac Hayes used to wipe down his Cadillac every morning wearing his gold chains, far from the neon of Beale Street’s blues bars, and blocks away from the hotel where Martin Luther King was assassinated, Stax artists stepped onto a creative merry-go-round of musical genius. Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Steve Cropper, BB King, King Curtis, The Bar-Kays, Carla Thomas, and so many more artists got their breaks at Stax.
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June 2, 2024
Gordon Black
It’s REAL: Where Have All the Poets Gone?
Gordon Black and Bill Bradd are two of my poet friends who just arrived at the Poetry Pearly Gates—at the extra-special Side Entrance for Bards who get up early to write every day.
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June 2, 2024
The inviting entrance hallway at Redwood Coast Seniors leads past The Attic thrift shop, the activity room, and the office toward the community room where lunch awaits. Photo: Zida Borcich
Redwood Coast Senior Center
I’m walking out of Redwood Coast Seniors in Fort Bragg as a crowd assembles behind a bottleneck at the front entrance just before lunchtime. I make my…
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June 2, 2024