After days of rain, Mother Nature cooperated, providing beautiful, warm sunshine for the 58th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Saturday, Feb. 3. A total of 584 runners and walkers showed up at the starting line in Trinidad for the 5.75-mile run/walk. Given the ongoing rainfall this winter, race organizers were debating pre-race until Friday afternoon as […]
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Trinidad to Clam Beach Run
Congratulations! You survived the 10 darkest weeks of the year, and now it’s time for the 58th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run. Running or walking the 5.75 miles from Trinidad to the finish line at Clam Beach is a great opportunity to have a little fun, experience some of the best of our Humboldt […]
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A Not So Boring 2024
At first blush, the number of the year we’re living in, 2024, sounds pretty uninteresting. First off, it’s obviously not prime (a prime number being only divisible by 1 and itself), unlike, for instance, prime years 2017 and 2027. I like prime years for their individuality. Same with my age: Two years ago, 79 was […]
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Is Zopissa Right for You?
Always take Zopissa as directed. Like the people in this ad, while laughing in a park with a non-threateningly diverse group of friends in colorful clothing. Or in full makeup with a glass of water in your sunny, spotless kitchen as you smile mysteriously at a cabinet. What’s in the cabinet? That’s your strange and […]
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Working it Out in the Garden
Now that it’s January, did you make any New Year’s resolutions? Yes? How’s that working out for you? No? Good job. The older I get, the more I learn that making resolutions only sets me up for failure. Oh, I try and manage to have a few goals with the turning of the calendar, but […]
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Cosmic Crisis
There are crises and crises, and unless you’re an avid science buff, you may not realize that cosmologists — the few thousand researchers whose lives are dedicated to understanding the history of the universe from birth to death — are currently faced with a huge predicament that’s only getting worse. It’s to do with the […]