by Christine | Sep 24, 2007 | Welcome Column
Mildred White, which is what we always called our aunt, my father’s sister, was always in her dark bedroom with the shades pulled down. She’d been in a sick bed since I could remember. For my entire remembered life, my aunt had been ever so slowly dying, shut in her...
by Christine | Nov 18, 2015 | Welcome Column
It has been said that there are two kinds of people: dog people and cat people. It’s a simplistic generalization, but it’s not too far off the mark. We have a cat and a dog in our household, and I like ‘em both, but that cat ain’t my friend, but my dog is. I know all...
by Christine | Feb 24, 2018 | Welcome Column
I sat holding my friend Ed’s hand for a good hour today. He is special to me: wise; persnickety—which I love in a man—experienced; worldly and a reminder of my Father, because he possesses a velveteen-like strength: Velvet of a hypnotic...
by Christine | Sep 22, 2018 | Welcome Column
He stood with boiled fish eye, Yet, hadn’t had a drink.He had the wisdom in his family;Yet they felt he couldn’t think.He walked a different kind of path; Not a bit like all the rest:He was a rock-hound in the nature,As he rode the wild-west.He’d roam the graves in...
by Christine | Sep 15, 2014 | Welcome Column
Not many people know it, but the person who coined the term Bluegrass Music, in reference to the genre that included Bill Monroe and all of his ilk, was not Bill himself, but a guy named Carlton Haney. Haney promoted the first multi-day Bluegrass festival in...
