Bill Siemer grew up on a farm in Lassen County, played basketball at Shasta JC, went to Vietnam, became a newspaper reporter and then a lawyer and now considers himself a champion of the story that needs to be told. He lives on the bank of the river and takes pictures.
I would have kept my last name when I got married, but it meant a lot to my husband to change it and I wasn't attached to my old one due to too many family dramas, and it was easier when the kids came; but it really is a pain to change everything.