by Christine | Jun 17, 2012 | Welcome Column
One of my favorite poets is ee Cummings. He isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and is known for playing with punctuation and spelling in his verse, but what I incorrectly attribute to cummings is something often billed as the shortest poem written entitled Fleas. “Adam...
by Christine | Aug 30, 2014 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Lordy Lord where does the time go. Seems like the day before yesterday that Dave Williams, Bay Area bassist, agreed to give Welcoming a shot. “You can always just toss it if you need to,” he allowed, but we never have. Dave got his Welcomers voice...
by Christine | Mar 17, 2015 | Welcome Column
I found this passage on a wall hanging in the Redhook Brewery in Woodinville, WA (Seattle) describing the qualities of a writer and somehow relating it to brewing beer. Actually, this passage was hung in multiple spots in the brewery and the connected pub. A...
by Christine | Oct 6, 2016 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note–Can you believe it, over four years of writing Welcome columns and today is the FIRST TIME Dave forgot it was up to bat. Wish all of our writers were that dependable. Here’s one of Dave’s earliest, from 2012. ...
by Christine | Feb 23, 2018 | Welcome Column
I found this passage on a wall hanging in the Redhook Brewery in Woodinville, WA (Seattle) describing the qualities of a writer and somehow relating it to brewing beer. Actually, this passage was hung in multiple spots in the brewery and the connected pub.A...
