by Christine | Oct 14, 2018 | Welcome Column
Some places you just don’t want to go back to. One such place for me until recently was the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa. North Santa Rosa was destroyed by a raging wildfire last October. The fire jumped from the hillsides of the upscale Fountain Grove...
by Christine | Dec 26, 2019 | Welcome Column
This a repost of mine from a year ago. I repost it because of several reasons – because it is certainly my most memorable Christmas; because I like to continue to thank the US Navy crew who picked me up in Hamhung Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1950; and because too many of...
by Christine | Dec 27, 2016 | Welcome Column
In 1952, after I got lucky and married into the Burnett Clan, we did what most young marrieds did – we planned the best Christmas experience we could. When our three children came along, we always made certain that they enjoyed Christmases to remember. However,...
by Christine | Mar 18, 2015 | Welcome Column
Playing music with other people – whether you’re jamming or “officially” performing – it’s a collaboration that creates a whole, greater than the sum of its parts. The most stark example of this is in vocal harmonies. Have you noticed that when a harmony...
by Christine | Apr 5, 2014 | Welcome Column
As some of you guys are aware, I am in my senior year in high school, which means that I have been spending much of the past six months deciding where I will go to college. Late last year was spent researching and deciding which colleges I should apply too along with...
by Christine | Jul 1, 2018 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Here’s a column from Marty written in 2014. There have been very few Welcome column writers who have so consistently and for so many years supplied this spot with informative, entertaining and utterly accessible essays. Thanks, Marty....
