Op-Ed: How to Do Remote Work from Remote Locations
Contrary to the pessimism that could prevail here, I think it’s a great time to move to/stay in/move back to Southern Humboldt, even if it’s just for the sunny seasons.
Read moreAuthor: Linda Stansberry
50 Miles from the Freeway: No Magic Pill
“[R]ural America, where people often suffer chronic pain due to lives of manual labor, has been struck hardest by the opiate epidemic.”
Read more50 Miles from the Freeway: Our ACE Scores
“Let’s start at the beginning. Let’s start with our kids.”
Read more50 Miles from the Freeway: A Few Good Men
“Men? We’re fucking tired. Your wives are tired. Your sisters are tired. Your mom is tired. We’re scared, and we’re trying, and we’re very, very tired.”
Read more50 Miles from the Freeway: A Christmas List for Caregivers
“Most of my friends had babies over the last two years. I hear it was a weird time to have a baby, but then kiddoes don’t exactly come on schedule.”
Read more50 Miles from the Freeway: Burnout
“Burnout is like a bad relationship, the kind you keep finding yourself in again and again despite being sure you knew how to avoid it this time.”
Read more50 Miles From the Freeway: ‘You’re Gonna Die’
“You’re gonna die. Sorry partner. I’m not saying this to be grabby, although depressing news is kind of my beat.”
Read moreHometown: Bad Teeth 1
“I am going to say something controversial again. I think most orthodontic work is a scam.”
Read moreHometown: Reflecting on the Christmas Flood
“When we are too bound by our sense of propriety or ‘good manners’ to push back on people in our lives who are being racist, xenophobic or unkind, we’re not practicing common sense but abandoning our highest values.”
Read moreHometown: Gratitude and Ghosts
“What do you call this time of year? For decades we’ve referred to the stretch between the last two weeks of November and first week of January as “the Holidays,” a term that encompasses celebrations of all faiths as well as the secular event of Thanksgiving.”
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