Ask Strider: This column, our advice columnist slyly points out the main advantage of aging. And wonders why we’re putting up with the discombobulation of Daylight Savings Time when regular time is perfectly all right on its own.
Ask Strider: Our advice columnist has a dream to relate. Other dogs have told him about their top dreams too. And his experiences at the dog park lead him to believe there are a number of ways to handle your attendance (or not) at a holiday party.
Ask Strider: Our advice columnist has hints on how to handle it when someone steps into your lane — at the dog park, during a neighborhood conversation, or at a family gathering. Gentle but firm is his counsel. Emphasis on the firm.
Ask Strider: This column, the Dog about Town recommends bright colors for dogs in hunting season, deep breathing for anxious humans, and insouciance when confronted with unwarranted snark. As always, he’s sympathetic to every worry.
Ask Strider: This week, our advice columnist enthuses about walking in a Rogue Valley autumn, the best way to treat a sick friend, and how to introduce yourself to a fellow human being.
Ask Strider: This week, the Dog about Town gives advice to a mom who wonders if she should adopt a puppy. He’s totally in favor, but, to be fair, thinks she should know what’s she’s getting into.
Ask Strider: This week, the Dog about Town tackles two wildly different subjects. He’s not sure what chemtrails are, exactly, but he does his best to help. And his advice to a cat who wants to do podcasts is straight from the Old Cedar Tree.
Ask Strider: In this column, Woody the Puppy answers a fellow student, and discovers pronouns for the first time. Strider gives advice on how to pick a great intern. And he and Woody love where they live, even when there’s smoke — “live” being the key word here.
Ask Strider: This week, the Dog about Town gets some love from a cat, a request for a cat, and a question from some cats. He cautiously lets new intern, Woody the
Puppy, answer this last. With success? See what you think!
Ask Strider: This week, Strider puts some heart into a small dog who feels underappreciated by his family, cats and all. Our advice columnist emphasizes the reward in a job well done, whether or not it’s noticed.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
It’s complicated.
Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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