John Heckel

This is the time of year when everyone tells us how important it is to vote. Politicians and journalists remind us of the many historically narrow election results of the past. Our very own Humboldt County supervisors appear at town hall meetings, desperate to distinguish themselves from their opponents, while attempting to remain cordial and […]

You know that feeling you get when people around you suddenly start talking about you in the third person, as if you were not there. As if you did not exist. “Excuse me, I am standing right here; talk to me,” or some such phrase is what I use to reaffirm my existence and to […]