by Christine | Jul 4, 2018 | Welcome Column
What a coup! I get to provide the 4th of July welcome column! Our country is in a lot of trouble. Public opinion seems highly polarized, and rational discourse is at a premium – damn hard to find, as a matter of fact. But remember this – the reason this is...
by Christine | May 13, 2012 | Welcome Column
Father’s day welcome columnists often write about the “column that nobody reads” (because we’re all at the Grass Valley Festival). Mother’s Day might be the column that almost nobody reads because you’re all off to the great annual...
by Christine | May 8, 2016 | Welcome Column
It’s a great Mother’s Day here in the wine country. Both kids are in the house for the weekend and as I write this my wife and daughter are out for a little bike ride together. Happy Mother’s Day everybody. My second Sunday slot has...
by Christine | Jan 1, 2015 | Welcome Column
I’m ready to get back to normal. What is normal? No colored lights hanging from the gutters and ledges, the pine tree out of the living room and back outside, minus the lights and ornaments, drinking coffee from a real mug, without Christmas bears on them, all that is...
by Christine | Jan 5, 2015 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where it is 3:15 a.m. and I am sitting in front of my computer updating the web site of the California Bluegrass Association as I have done for just shy seven months of fifteen years. What’s different about this particular morning,...
by Christine | Jan 1, 2019 | Welcome Column
I don’t think it matters much which side of the political divide you’re on, 2018 has been a very difficult year for we Americans, one that I think many of us bid a fond farewell to. Here’s hoping that during our next jaunt around the sun each and...
