by Christine | Jul 6, 2014 | Welcome Column
(Editors Note: Marcos has taken very, very few passes during his years as a Welcome columnist, and when he has it’s been for good reason. This morning, for example, he’s tooling around Europe with his wife…derned good excuse we at cbaontheweb.org Towers believe. But...
by Christine | Oct 6, 2011 | Welcome Column
Have you ever caught yourself lapsing into an unlikely speech pattern influenced by the person to whom you were speaking? In the late ‘seventies and early ‘eighties”, I made my living driving trucks, and found myself adopting the patter of my fellow road jockeys....
by Christine | Mar 10, 2011 | Welcome Column
Legendary restaurant owner Juanita Musson died Feb. 26 at a hospital in Sonoma after suffering a stroke. The 87-year-old was a well-known character in the greater Bay Area. In her earlier years she was often mentioned in Herb Caen’s column in the San Francisco...
by Christine | Sep 25, 2019 | Welcome Column
No, this is not an article about drinking at a jam session. I’m sure most of you have heard the expression “Circle of Fifths”. The notion is if you move from one tone to another 5 tones higher, eventually it circles back around to the beginning spot. Interestingly (or...
by Christine | Jan 3, 2016 | Welcome Column
People are always telling me I need to relax more, and „live in the moment.“ A physical therapist once told me that my shoulder injury, my eternal headaches and the fact that I have trouble sleeping might be the result of the fact that my body contantly produces too...
by Christine | Feb 24, 2011 | Welcome Column
Every year about this time when it’s snowing and cold as a wedge, I’m always reminded of the time that we played a show with Rose Maddox in the little mountain town of Camino, Calif. We being the Vern Wiliams Band, with our good buddy Ray Park playing the...
