by Christine | Jun 21, 2020 | Welcome Column
By the time you read this we will have moved on from the TYRO virtual FDF and will be thinking about next year’s FDF and other festivals to come.. We’ll be moving from the tease of June to the gut of summer with long languid days hot, maybe humid days, but alas...
by Christine | Jun 7, 2017 | Welcome Column
Just got the word – there’s no new Welcome Messages during the week leading up to the Father’s Day Festival. This is because so much of the hoi polloi of the CBA are bugging out to Grass Valley during the week. There’s nothing wrong with this practice – I...
by Christine | Jul 18, 2011 | Welcome Column
A while back my wife, Lynn, posted on the Message Board that “Rick is feeling better”. I’d had two solid days without joint and muscle pain attacks (the first time in six weeks) and we both figured we were over the hump. And there was an out-pouring of many of my...
by Christine | Nov 26, 2018 | Welcome Column
There is something very ambivalent about my attitude towards “culture” and “art”. I always gravitate towards it and somehow cannot imagine my life without it, and the closest I get to experiencing pure bliss is in fleeting moments when music (or any other artistic...
by Christine | Jun 27, 2018 | Welcome Column
What do our senses do for us? Simply put, they detect changes and report them to us. It’s vital for survival – a glimpse of a threat, the sound of pending danger, the smell of smoke, or a sudden increase or decrease in temperature. Happily, the same senses...
by Christine | Jan 20, 2014 | Welcome Column
Today’s national holiday is a very special day with an anniversary twist this year. Some of us baby boomers can look back fifty years to a time when Martin Luther King, Jr. was in his heyday. This past summer we remembered the March on Washington and King’s famous “I...
