Gone to North Carolina

(TEA BAG IN MOUTH–First things first. For whatever reason, I spent 67 years walking this planet before anyone saw fit to tell me that  when you have a hole in your jaw where a tooth should be, the best thing to fill it with, temporarily, of course, is a...

Good friends

A couple months ago I wrote a column about performing. It was about telling someone they did a good job when you really didnt think they did. Is it better to tell them more of the truth so they don’t begin to believe all the comments that are little white lies....

Good Last Saturday of the year!

Let me quickly say before I forget. High Country will ring in the New Year at the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley tonight, and if you don’t believe me, just look up the screen a bit to a very large pronouncement of that fact. Were my wife and I not in the final-stages...

Good Medicine

Have you ever hit a wall? You are moving along at a good pace, picking up speed as you go, enjoying the ride and BOOM! You hit the proverbial wall. This happened to me recently. I had been going non-stop to festivals, camp-outs, and jamming parties all over Northern...

Good Medicine

You never know where an inspiration for a Welcome Column will come from. Those of us, who write, are always on the look out for subject matter. I went to the pharmacy today to refill a prescription. I’ve been thinking about the medicines many of us take; prescription,...