I love bats

Dear Friends, The Father’s Day Festival was just a bunch of fun! So good, in fact, that we skipped my son Marty’s high school graduation ceremony to get up there on Thursday. Of course these days everyone is in immediate and direct contact with everyone else, what...

I love the smell of wet dog in the morning

Today’s Welcome Column from George Martin Thursday, May 14, 2009 At the the Turlock campout we ended up right next to Jim Genaw and Mikki Feeney. Besides a lot of excellent music, we enjoyed just hanging out at their camp, fondly remembering the now-defunct festival...

I love to read, and to write.

A book creates a world with all the sensory elements we experience in the real life, some doing it better than others. It’s not easy to use words on a page to describe a smell, a sound, a taste. In stories I have written, I’ve tried to make the reader hear the most...

I Love to Volunteer

(Editor’s Note–Please join me in welcoming our newest Welcome columnist, Kay Nichols.  We met her Wednesday afternoon at the Lodi camp out and she was hooked, reeled in and indoctrinated before dark.  But seriously, Kay, WELCOME. ...

I love to volunteer!

(Editor’s Note–Okay, this one REALLY IS Kay’s Welcome column.  I won’t offer an excuse for mistakenly plugging in Ellie Withnall’s “Humidity,” column set to air later this month because, hey, you know what they say about...