Dan Barnett

Dax Meredith (daxmeredith), the pen name of a Chico area author, college instructor and counselor, wrote of her escape from the Camp Fire in “The Sound Of The Snow Geese.” But she i…

of 1 “Letting All The Light In: Gracefully Surviving Illness, Injury, And Grief” by Dax Meredith. (Contributed)

Marysville author-poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo recently spoke to Butte College students, reading from his memoir “Children Of The Land.” An immigration advocate and part of the college’s Diversi…

of 1 “Cenzontle: Poems” by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. (Contributed)

“Part of why we observe Advent,” writes Episcopal priest Tish Harrison Warren, “is to make Christmas weird again, to allow the shock of the incarnation

of 1 “Advent: The Season Of Hope” by Tish Harrison Warren. (Contributed)

“I was born in Chico,” author Karen Gilden writes me, though she spent most of her public school career in Willows. Her dad worked for the U.S. Forest Service there, and “Mom was the secretary at the grammar school in Willows for years.”

Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to dbarnett99@me.

Retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Dave Nordel grew up in Orland. While the Air Force “made me a medic” the cows in Orland made him wise.

of 1 “When The Cows Lie Down: The Reason People Quit You — Their ‘Leader’” by Dave Nordel. (Contributed)