by Christine | Sep 6, 2013 | Welcome Column
Item 1: I was home relaxing after my wonderful trip to Cooperstown and seeing the Hall of Fame activities my sister Maria Nadauld (Above the Bay Booking) graciously presented to me for my 65th birthday. I went outside to mow the front lawn when Bob, our next door...
by Christine | Jul 1, 2011 | Welcome Column
Item 1: The 2011 Father’s Day Festival is over. Folks were excited, the weather was perfect, the bands were great and the music and laughter of various jams wafted through the pines. But there was a sense of loss, an unfamiliar odd feeling that something was missing...
by Christine | Dec 6, 2013 | Welcome Column
Item 1: The late great Jimmie Stewart was on the Tonight show chatting with Johnny Carson and related this little story. Jimmie asked Johnnie what you would call a newly married woman who refused to get romantic with her husband until he would prepare for her a huge...
by Christine | Oct 7, 2011 | Welcome Column
Item 1: From the Associated Press in Stockholm: A seemingly drunk Swedish moose found stuck in a tree: Per Johansson, 45, says he heard a roar from his vacationing neighbor’s garden in southwestern Sweden late Tuesday and went to have a look. There, he found a female...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2011 | Welcome Column
Last Monday November 21, Sheila and I, bleary eyed and half asleep bundled up in our warmest coats, got into our Saturn Aura at 4:30 A.M. for the foggy, chilly ride to Doctors Hospital in Modesto. Even though my minimal invasive microlaminectomy wasn’t’ scheduled...
by Christine | Mar 30, 2012 | Welcome Column
One The S.F. Chronicle has had a long history of well known and famous writers. As a v. young child I was weaned on the daily columns of Delaplane, Hoppe, Caen, and my favorite Charles McCabe. As I grew older the inimitable Ralph J. Gleason was a daily read as well as...
