Little Things Add Up

Thursday, July 30, 2015 (Editor’s Note: Each of our Welcome columnists develops over time a sort of a telltale signature or fingerprint, a quality or characteristic that can be found in each of her pieces. Marcos’ was there almost from the beginning; regardless of...

What’s important.

Well it is 2:20 a.m. on July 9th as I write this column. We were notified a few hours ago that the Mill Fire is coming towards my home and that mandatory evacuation is likely sometime after sunrise but they are not sure when. The sky all around us is a haunting orange...

Live from Music Camp

I swear there is a CBA conspiracy to hold events on every third weekend just to make my welcome column more difficult to write. The campouts seem to fall on third weekends, Grass Valley runs over the third weekend, and the winter music camp definitely is on this third...

Live Music

When I was in my early twenties playin’ in a low rent Rock & Roll bar band, I joined the musicians union. My dope addled thought process had surmised that union musicians make more money than non union musicians, and since a ham sandwich would have been more than...