Coffee and conversation
Alen Lauzan Falcon
Publisher Greg Stevens and I regularly select a spot to have coffee and ask readers to join us for conversation. This morning we were at Old Town Coffee and Chocolates in Eureka, where about 10 people turned out.
The discussion North Coast earthquakes and floods, the old days of volunteer firefighting in Eureka, the days when the railroad ran, the Humboldt Amateur Radio Club's upcoming Field Day in June, and the crisis facing our schools.
We started at 7 a.m., and I’ll confess that early in the morning is not my best time. Over a lifetime in the news business, when the paper “goes to bed” at 11:40 p.m. and the press starts at midnight, I have developed a night-owl body clock.
I get into work about 11 a.m., and work to 8 or 9 p.m., or until the Times-Standard’s night editors have things well in hand. In addition, when I am at home about 10:30 or 11 p.m., I’m e-mailed a final look at page one before I hit the sack sometime after midnight.
Nevertheless, I can rouse myself early when it’s called for, and the first cup of coffee usually perks me up. Besides, Greg Stevens is one of those chipper, up-at-the-crack-of-dawn people who carries the conversation until I can mentally jump in.
We have these coffees every month or so, and try to move the venue around. So please join in the conversation at the next coffee with the editor and publisher.