Mother was so proud when I graduated from law school that she let me skip practicing my violin for that night, and we went to Dad’s restaurant for dinner.

How do Humboldters view and use AI? We asked them.

Artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life, whether we actively seek it out or not. It is changing how people search for information, communicate, create, work and learn.

I’ve been an associate faculty with College of the Redwoods Adult & Community Education for 11 years, 10 of which with much of my time teaching at Humboldt County Correctional Facility (HCCF) in Eureka.

Many veterans know the military acronyms SNAFU and FUBAR.* For everyone else, they translate roughly to situations that have gone very wrong.

Growing up in the 1950s, I don’t remember ever hearing the word “technology,” certainly not “techie.” My heroes — Lone Ranger, Sky King and Dobie Gillis —never uttered those words. Nowadays, technology discussions are common.

I didn’t choose AI. AI chose me. My journey into the realm of artificial intelligence began less than a year ago after the catastrophic crash of my 8-year-old HP laptop. The new machine I bought was glitchy from day one, so I connected with Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant, to help troubleshoot the chaos. A...

Writer Amanda Devon will teach a free six-week Storytelling & Memoir Workshop at Humboldt Senior Resource Center in Eureka on Monday afternoons beginning Oct. 12.

The invasion of data centers is atop the list of hot-button topics in many Midwest communities these days. There is no denying that the insidious tentacles of artificial intelligence (AI) have stretched into nearly every aspect of our daily lives — work, school, shopping, the cars we drive, how we heat, cool ...

After Whites came to Humboldt County, they exercised neither wisdom nor restraint in naming places. Thus, you had Mad River, which referred not to turbulent water but to a quarrel between members of the Gregg Party, who were seeking Humboldt Bay. And what about the bay itself, named to honor a brilliant and w...

I remember it well. Shortly after moving to our two acres in Westhaven from LA, Michael said “Look at all that blackberry! We should get a couple of goats.” We had a barn and a pen and lots of overgrown yard, so it seemed a good idea. After calling around, off he went in his truck and brought home an Alpine d...

My sweet rescue dog was incorrigible. A born troublemaker. I had jury duty, so I took Penny back to the school where, after adoption, she’d completed three weeks “basic training.” They’d deemed her a classic Beagle with a hound mentality — an independent thinker, stubborn, willful and ADD besides. On this day...

Anyone who has spent time with animals of any kind knows that there is something so honest, so nurturing and calming about them. That’s why we have therapy dogs and horses, and emotional support animals of all species— animals have a healing spirit. In fact, researchers find that being with animals increases ...

We dearly loved our bloodhound fur child Katie, who was our heart girl and a therapy dog as well. We were devastated when cancer took her. My husband, Charlie, died five months later. He broke his ankle in Mammoth Lakes and we were flown to Reno when an operable heart condition was discovered. Charlie got COV...

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

The title is from a friend about a pet and living by yourself. I had been living alone for a couple of years when my 18-year-old cat decided it was time and went off and found a fern to expire under. After a suitable period of mourning, I decided it was time for another cat. I was looking for a mellow cat and...

I have always loved dogs. My childhood dog was a mutt named Brownie that had traveled across the country with my brothers and mother before I was born. He would walk me next door and wait outside while I visited at the neighbors and then walk back home with me. Like so many childhood memories, he looks much s...

If you want someone who will eat whatever you put in front of him and never say it’s not quite as good as his mother’s … then get a dog. If you want someone always willing to go out, at any hour, for as long and wherever you want … then get a dog.

For many older adults, pets are more than companions. They greet us each morning, encourage us to go for walks, comfort us during tough times and give us love and a sense of purpose. So losing them can feel like a profound loss. But others often minimize the loss of a pet. Friends might say, “You can get anot...

I was enjoying a foggy evening at home when I got an email from a friend telling me she was so sad because she knew her eldest dog’s life was coming to a close. I asked her if she had a good vet who would be kind and gentle and she replied yes and described the vet to me.