by Christine | Dec 18, 2017 | Welcome Column
FAMOUS PEOPLE I’VE KNOWNIn 1968 Andy Warhol famously predicted that, “in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Although we’re a lot closer to this being true than we were in 1968, what with the Internet and satellite communication and...
by Christine | May 4, 2020 | Welcome Column
I have been racking my brain for the last week or so trying to figure out what I’m going to write for the column today. For the life of me I couldn’t dredge up a story about my musical adventure from the past until this evening, Wednesday, June 25....
by Christine | Jul 14, 2017 | Welcome Column
I have been racking my brain for the last week or so trying to figure out what I’m going to write for the column today. For the life of me I couldn’t dredge up a story about my musical adventure from the past until this evening, Wednesday, June 25....
by Christine | Jun 12, 2011 | Welcome Column
I’ll see you up here, real soon, I hope! My baseball obsessed son, Ethan (age 10) is really into this online game called fantasy baseball. You can sign up and play for free at a number of sports sites, ESPN.com for example. Right now there are 160,000 players in...
by Christine | Aug 19, 2014 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where all seven of us are pretending like nothing is wrong, while proving beyond a doubt that something is…is terribly wrong …by studiously avoiding all eye contact. You’d think it would be easier for the five dogs to pull this off...
by Christine | May 4, 2019 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist:“History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king’s bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.” —...