by Christine | Jul 7, 2012 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–We want to welcome Marty Varner as our First Saturday of the Month Welcome columnist. We’ve seen his excellent and exuberant writing in this spot several times in the past, but it’s official now. The kid’s got plenty to...
by Christine | Feb 14, 2012 | Welcome Column
In a recent article in the New Yorker Jonah Lehrer discusses a well-known problem-solving strategy known as brainstorming. As a graduate student and later as a teacher, I had bought into the idea and sought to teach my students how to generate ideas by throwing them...
by Christine | Jul 17, 2009 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Although Ted is a regular columnist here at cbaontheweb.org and generally writes a column of his own choosing each third Friday of the month, we prevailed upon him this month to allow us to use a post he recently did on the Bluegrass L. The thread was...
by Christine | Apr 8, 2012 | Welcome Column
Happy Easter to everybody! I have to admit that, for me, these days Easter isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. (pardon the pun) Easter egg hunts are mostly a thing of the past, now that my kids are getting pretty close to “full sized”. And...
by Christine | Jan 12, 2013 | Welcome Column
It was Saturday, a usual Saturday, as Saturdays go. He got up at seven in the morning, had two cups of coffee, a very large slice of whole grain toast (no butter), brushed his teeth, and then headed out the door for the garage sales. The predictable garage sale that...
by Christine | Apr 28, 2019 | Welcome Column
Their minds arrived at the town long before their bodies did. The minds arrived days, weeks, months, and even up to almost one year ahead of their existential shells.And when the time had come, the bodies made their way to cars, vans, camper vehicles, RVs,...