A Little Bit of This and That

Today’s column from Stuart (Slim) Sims Saturday, June 6, 2009 Lacking a compelling subject for this month’s column, I offer musings on some random topics culled from the CBA website. Actually, it’s all Rick’s fault. When he first asked me to try my hand at this,...

A Little Boost

Being a CBA board member is a lot of work; burn out is an occupational hazard. But it seems that each year, just about the time I start running out of steam, something will happen to provide a boost. Last year it was running into an old friend at the Fathers Day...

A Little Less of Me

Just a few days ago, I woke up feeling great, all seemed right with the world. After doing my morning devotions and prayers, I logged onto the CBA site and read my friend Cliff’s Christmas Welcome Column. Next, I made a post on the Message board; something lame… “What...

A little music camp retrospective

Good early morning from Jamestown, California, population 961. We’ll have a hot time in the old town today. First story I viewed sipping my coffee this a.m. on mymotherlode.com……”Portions of the Motherlode could –emphasize could — see temperatures of up to...

A Long Postcard

(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...

A Manner of Speaking

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....

A memory of Juanita

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...

A Merry Circle of Fifths

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...

A message from the heart of Europe

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...