by Christine | Sep 24, 2020 | Welcome Column
Daily grist; no matter how slowly the wheels turn I refused to be ground down, and eventually will die a complete person. JD RhynesA memory from 70 years ago still haunts me. The setting was the middle-class neighborhood of East Stockton in which I was raised. It was...
by Christine | Jan 12, 2012 | Welcome Column
For various and sundry reasons I had not previously attended a Great 48 Winter Jam before. But this past summer was notable for a combination of babysitting responsibilities and conflicting band gigs and other commitments, which meant I missed Plymouth and Hollister...
by Christine | Mar 20, 2011 | Welcome Column
If you google “A Beautiful Life” a pretty diverse list of websites falls out, including a site for cosmetics and several hits for a movie directed by Alejandro Chomski…but not the gospel song done by Bill Monroe. For that you have to include an additional term like...
by Christine | Nov 1, 2009 | Welcome Column
“Hello! Anybody home?” Of course, nobody was home this time in the afternoon. It was my sophomore year in college and I was dropping by my parents’ place hoping to snag the Sunday dinner leftovers before anybody came home. Something, however, felt out of place. The...
by Christine | Nov 2, 2014 | Welcome Column
There’s two things that all 13 to 14 year olds really enjoy: hearing horror stories and telling horror stories. A few weeks ago, we read Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” in class. Naturally class participation and test scores just leaped through the ceiling for this unit of...
