by Christine | Jul 25, 2020 | Welcome Column
“You can be a kid for as long as you want to when you play baseball.” – Cal Ripken, Jr.It’s spring, and someone somewhere – at this very moment – is saying “Play Ball” because throughout the country it is the beginning of baseball season. Right now, the...
by Christine | Aug 4, 2013 | Welcome Column
“Just take a hammer and knock it out.” That’s my wife’s familiar refrain when she wants something remodeled around here. “Just knock it out and put the new one in.” Her notion of the work it takes remodel or build anything are obviously born of the wave of do-it-your...
by Christine | Jul 11, 2009 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass, Old Time and Gospel music is not universally appreciated around our house. I’ve admitted this deep dark secret before on the welcome column. So far I haven’t been asked to turn in my CBA membership card, so I’ll elaborate. In our family the great musical...
by Christine | Jul 18, 2012 | Welcome Column
In the book “The Right Stuff”, Tom Wolfe wrote about test pilots, and the stringent physical and mental requirements for the job, with regards to eyesight, agility, etc. The test pilots live in fear of failing these requirements, because, as Wolfe said, “It [the Right...
by Christine | Sep 5, 2020 | Welcome Column
Never before have I offered a Web welcome column that already has been published in the Bluegrass Breakdown, but I have been such a Vern & Ray fan for nearly 50 years that I decided this piece I did for the April CBA paper would be the exception. Another reason is...
