by Christine | Oct 31, 2008 | Welcome Column
Bluegrass music is full of songs about home. Cabins in hollers is Tennessee. Mountain homes in Kentucky. Even city living. ?I?ve got a home In Baltimore Streetcar running By my door? (Hillmen) I guess most of us wax nostalgic about our childhood homes, and the home...
by Christine | Aug 29, 2014 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Seeing as how today is a fifth Friday and none of our Welcome columnists are scheduled to turn in a piece, and seeing as how yesterday Jean Ramos made a derned interesting suggestion, (when we run previously posted columns, why not ask our team of...
by Christine | Aug 23, 2009 | Welcome Column
If you have ever had your property vandalized, I think you will sympathize with me. Three months ago we had our front yard re-landscaped with beautiful lush green sod. We went to the added expense of having a sprinkling system installed and decided to hire a gardener...
by Christine | Jul 21, 2014 | Welcome Column
I was going through the newspaper the other day and I came across an article about how the east bay city of Albany recently relocated homeless people from a waterfront peninsula called the bulb in order to make way for a new park extension. A couple dozen or so of the...
by Christine | Aug 8, 2014 | Welcome Column
I was remembering the first time I saw Homer Meeds house. I thought to myself this here looks like a movie set about some mountain man in Alaska who plays with grizzly bears. I guess I wasn’t too far off, turns out he got bit by a bear once. It took a hunk out of this...
by Christine | Jul 3, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning, once again, from Whiskey Creek, where last Friday I began clearing out a little brush from our llama pasture, a couple hours job I told Lynn, and in a few minutes I’ll head back down there for a fifth straight day of work in sweat-spewing sun and...
