by Christine | Sep 29, 2020 | Welcome Column
Fifty-one years ago I knocked on an apartment door on the south side of San Jose, out near Tully Road, an unremarkable act that I did not realize would change my life.I needed to use a telephone to get phone service for the apartment two doors down where my three San...
by Christine | Dec 14, 2012 | Welcome Column
I’ve lived sixty one years, and would like to live another sixty one. By my calculations that means I’ve lived through sixty one Christmas’s. I really like Christmas. Maybe it’s just where I’m sitting, but it seems to me that on that day, once a year, the world’s a...
by Christine | Dec 23, 2011 | Welcome Column
Sometimes things happen that are bigger than life. It was last Christmas, and Deb Livermore, Armondo Garcia, Chef Mike, a saxophone playing friend of Armondo’s and myself decided to spread a little holiday cheer. Mike can sing those syrupy Christmas songs like Andy...
by Christine | Dec 29, 2011 | Welcome Column
I’ve always thought it would be cool to be a disk jockey on the radio. Spin just the right tunes from a vast music collection for all you listeners to enjoy, just as if you were at a party with your closest friends. My little brother was a DJ in college and even...
by Christine | Dec 17, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Third Saturdays are normally Don Denison days but, as you probably know, Don has been hospitalized for a while now and has missed a few months. The good news is that Bob Thomas posted an update on Don yesterday on the Message Board...