by Christine | Apr 3, 2016 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–Best we can tell, this is the first Welcome column written by Marcos; it goes all the way back to the fall of 2009 and, though it was his first, it was pretty clear even way back then that we CBA web site visitors were going to be in for a...
by Christine | Sep 6, 2009 | Welcome Column
Charlie, my cousin, and I had just finished a good morning of frogging. Our buckets were full of the large green, twitching amphibians just waiting to be delegged and eaten for dinner. We had ridden our bicycles for, what seemed to our eleven year old legs, a marathon...
by Christine | Feb 3, 2013 | Welcome Column
This last year has been roller coaster of highs and lows for our nation. Mass shootings. The job market slowly creeping upwards. Choking droughts and crushing ice storms. Troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. High ranking generals embroiled in scandal. In the turmoil of...
by Christine | Jan 2, 2011 | Welcome Column
“I’m gonna lean on the counter and let the glass ring. More brandy. More brandy. More brandy to bring” Those lyrics seem like they might have been sung by rowdy, lederhosen wearing Germans in a 19th century Bavarian beer hall. In fact, they’re from an old American...
by Christine | Feb 28, 2008 | Welcome Column
The other day, I was reposing on my favorite resting place, in my shop, next to a good hot wood stove, listening to the rain on the roof. When the weather is cold and stormy here on my mountain, I always seem to gravitate to the small couch by the stove, and before I...
