by Christine | Nov 27, 2019 | Welcome Column
I’ll keep this as short as I can, but it won’t be easy – I’m thankful for a great many things.First and foremost – family. I have a great, close-knit family. I can say for certain that this has been the case for at least five generations, and the value of...
by Christine | Oct 31, 2012 | Welcome Column
Occasionally, while schlepping a double bass up a flight of stairs after a three hour drive, I ask myself why I’m doing this. I’m sure many a 10-year-old asked the same question while practicing piano lessons on a sunny day while friends are outside enjoying the sun....
by Christine | May 19, 2007 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Rick Cornish (rcornish@sjcoe.net) Saturday May 19, 2007 When cbaontheweb.org was launched in October of 2001 the Welcome column contained no “I’s”. In fact, it didn’t contain much, and the only thing that changed from day to day in the...
by Christine | Jan 31, 2016 | Welcome Column
Back when the earth’s crust was cooling (the late ‘70s), I was part of Vancouver Co-op Radio’s first country music show. We’d already established programming based on local music, blues, jazz, and folk, so a mix of bluegrass, old time, classic country, swing,...
by Christine | May 8, 2012 | Welcome Column
In a recent commentary in the New Yorker, Adam Gropnik wrote about what he called the “Forty Year Itch.” Reflecting on the popular TV series “Mad Men,” he enunciates the Golden Forty-Year Rule: “The prime site of nostalgia is always whatever happened, or is thought to...
