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Brief excursions

Equinoctial To-Do and Native Plants

A little imagination

Editor: Miss Gustin's letter regarding Torgensen's cartoon about vaccines was an excellent example of misinformation (Mailbox, Sept. 15.). She started with something true: Vaccines don't...

Editor: Because I live in the rural wilds of Humboldt, I don't get to read every Journal. It was only by chance that I picked...

One moment at a time

Editor: "Gardening as a Moral Conundrum" by Lauri Rose is a highly amusing and entertaining way to regard gardening, enjoyed by so many of us,...

Illustration by local artist Caitlin Fowler, based on “A Perfect Stranger,” winner of this year’s Flash Fiction contest. Once again, our readers are the writers in the annual contest of narrative brevity judged by a team of story lovers: Booklegger owners Jennifer McFadden and Nancy Short, retired children’s librarian JoAnn Bauer, Eureka Poet Laureate and College of the Redwoods professor David Holper, and myself. The influence of the pandemic is visible here and there in the haul of ...