Vines

Dear friends, Up here in Boulder Creek, the loveliest town in the Santa Cruz Mountains, if I do say so myself, there are blackberry bushes everywhere. My daily walks or runs along the country lanes that radiate out from our little burg take me by long stretches of the...

Vrooom Vroooom Ugggh Crash Bang

There’s almost nothing more southern than NASCAR, except maybe for football, grits, and guns; oh and I almost forgot “Live Atlanta Wrestling”. Growing up in Atlanta there was about as much auto racing on TV as baseball and other sports. It was kind of difficult to...

Wait ‘em Out

I don’t know if this was the first Welcome column we posted by George Martin, but I know it’s an early one. My mother, whose name was Millie, was the stuff of legends when it came to fishing. Many a time when the entire extended family went to the Delta for a weekend...

Waking up the next day

Happy Day After Thanksgiving, everyone! If you’re like me, you wake up to this day wishing that the Thanksgiving holiday feeling could linger for a day or two longer as you’re not yet ready to be so forcefully plunged into the Christmas shopping season with the...