by Christine | Mar 18, 2021 | Welcome Column
I have a clear childhood memory of the occasion when I first met someone who spoke a foreign language fluently. I still remember the excitement of discovering that this person could understand my simple schoolboy French and that I could understand her replies....
by Christine | Dec 28, 2020 | Welcome Column
I don’t know anybody in this world that cannot say the aforementioned statement with any truth to it. We all wish we had not done some things, and in retrospect after the moment has passed, we all wish we had done certain things. Every year as the month of June...
by Christine | Feb 2, 2021 | Welcome Column
My introduction into the Bay Area bluegrass community began, oddly enough, at an Oscars party. It was March 2003 when I walked several blocks in the rain to a Sunday night gathering of movie buffs, and a few jammers, none of whom I had ever met. I was expecting a jam,...
by Christine | Feb 28, 2021 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s note. Reading Carolyn’s column from the past is making me hungry. It is not easy to find truly worthy biscuits and gravy) Nothing is more comforting, savory, tasty and satisfying to eat for breakfast than biscuits and gravy. Objectively, it’s just a pile...
by Christine | Feb 3, 2021 | Welcome Column
Like a lot of folks, I have spent considerable time during the pandemic sheltered in place, and passing the time without going nuts involves a considerable amount of reading – and watching TV. I have read a lot of good books and immersed myself in movies and...
by Christine | Dec 26, 2020 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–No, yer not seeing things. Maggie’s column about the Orange Blossom Special DID run Christmas day. But it was so derned good, the consensus around here was that it should stay up another day. If you were out Christmasing yesterday and...
