March 2026 - The Reading Habit, News
February 27, 2026
I started working at Booklegger when I was 20. Almost 40 years later, I am now the bookstore’s sole proprietor and still love my work. It’s not just about the books. Of course bookstore people love to read, but the thing that makes my job so satisfying is the readers themselves. I have come to think of biblio...
February 2026 - An Intimate Conversation, News
January 30, 2026
Over 2,000 years ago, Marcus Tullius Cicero said, “For old age is respected only if it defends itself, maintains its rights, submits to no one, and rules over its domain until its last breath.” My wife, Janet, took that last breath with the help of meds offered under California’s End-of-Life-Option Act in our...
Columnists, John Heckel's Column
February 27, 2026
The title of my Ph.D. dissertation is “Transgressive Gender Performance — An Act of Personal and Cultural Transformation” (2013). The idea behind the research was that if I could get a group of heterosexual men to experience gender as something they do (perform) and not something they were, then they would be...
HSRC News
January 30, 2026
Mark your calendars for the 2026 Humboldt Senior Resource Center (HSRC) Supporting Healthy Aging Conference, Thursday, May 14, at the Sequoia Conference Center in Eureka. This full-day conference continues the tradition of HSRC’s successful and longstanding Dementia Care Conference series. This year’s confere...
March 2026 - The Reading Habit, News
February 27, 2026
One of my earliest memories is of my father sitting in his old rocker reading the newspaper. The newsboy delivered the paper daily, and we had to place it unopened on the little table by his chair. He preferred to unwrap it himself. He read it slowly, digesting the contents. My first introduction to politics ...
