I am writing from UC Berkeley, on the day of my mother’s birthday. My whole family is coming to the show tonight. Having family in the audience always makes it special. We are playing Zellerbach hall, an intimidating and stunning venue. Though I love San Francisco, it is nice to play in the East Bay for a change. I was supposed to play live on KFOG this morning but our trailer blew a tire in the middle of the night and it set us back a few hours. It got me thinking about chain reactions…