by Christine | Mar 15, 2020 | Welcome Column
Hi ya’ll. My name is Juno, I am an 8-week old Cardigan Welsh Corgi and I am substituting this morning for my new owner Geoff Sargent. We’ve known each other now for about 48 hours and he seems to be an ok guy, but a little overbearing when it comes to letting me do my...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2020 | Welcome Column
I’ve seen very good players cringe when someone in a jam calls the Ralph Stanley classic Clinch Mountain Backstep. Okay, maybe not very good players but just the same some good jammers do flinch at the call.Because I revel in redundancy, or because maybe there are two...
by Christine | Jan 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
I’ve been playing in bands since I was fourteen. About every kind of band combination and style of music that came by at the right time. The first one, in Kansas City Missouri, was called the vettes four, and we were named after the Corvette. Don’t ask me why that was...
by Christine | Jul 6, 2016 | Welcome Column
“Quality of life” is a phrase that gets bandied about quite a bit and a lot of different contexts. I first heard the term in a “right to die” context – the phrase referred to the argument against heroic measures to keep someone alive, even as all their...
by Christine | Jan 4, 2007 | Welcome Column
Editor’s Note–Because of the nature of our respective careers, (she applications programmer, me team leader of a Internet development business), my wife and I have side-by-side computers set up on a wall-length counter in our study. And that’s where, most...
by Christine | May 19, 2018 | Welcome Column
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” –Helen KellerThis quote, poignant, turns my thoughts directions I haven’t...
