by Christine | Oct 13, 2009 | Welcome Column
Tomorrow, I’m going to a wedding. No, it’s not my wedding…I already did that once…it’s the wedding of one of our surrogate daughters. Sarah lived with us for approximately three years before moving out on her own. She was an interesting kid at times, but then I...
by Christine | Jan 11, 2011 | Welcome Column
What I’m doing these days is working on a transition from partially retired, (working two days per week) to completely retired (giving the whole damned thing up). It’s been hard. I’ve read, and I’m inclined to believe, that some people, folks with not the greatest...
by Christine | Jan 28, 2018 | Welcome Column
Retirement’s on my mind this morning. It’s because I posted a news item about Kathy Barwick’s up coming performances (see left column below) and that got me to thinking about how the really smart ones among us are able, with some good planning and...
by Christine | Mar 26, 2016 | Welcome Column
In my younger days, when summer was never ending and the river never stopped flowing; when snow fell before me, just because it was beautiful in its silence; when my muse was a single stick and a blanket to pitch my tent beneath the summer moon; when a walk on a...
by Christine | Apr 15, 2008 | Welcome Column
Some weeks ago there was a post on the CBA message board from the Contra Costa Civic Theater in El Cerrito seeking a banjo player, a fiddle player and a bass player to perform in a production of “Foxfire,” a play by Hume Cronyn and Susan Cooper. That kind of piqued my...
