by Christine | Mar 15, 2017 | Welcome Column
(Author’s note: Back when I started writing welcome columns, only a few were saved each month for inclusion in the archives. This one didn’t make the cut but I remember having a lot of fun creating it. So here it is again. I hope you enjoy it.)It was nighttime at...
by Christine | Apr 2, 2018 | Welcome Column
A few days ago I was up at the barn looking through a file cabinet full of old documents trying to find some paper work on the 1979 purchase of my Martin D-35 guitar…going to find out if they’re serious about their lifetime guarantee policy. Never did find what...
by Christine | Aug 28, 2018 | Welcome Column
Road Trip Once in a while a man must runoutside to find and gas his car -to wend his way through streetsand get the hell way out of town -a road of lanes, just two, will dofor feeling out the clime, and timewill let him know if west or east is best of free that...
by Christine | Aug 27, 2016 | Welcome Column
It was in the 1960s I came to know my distant cousins, Fern and Evelyn. Fern, my Grandmother’s age, was struck by a horrid accident in her young life and came out of it with little hearing and no sight. Her hearing was augmented to the point, she could...
by Christine | Sep 13, 2013 | Welcome Column
Muse (myz) 1. Greek Mythology Any of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, each of whom presided over a different art or science. 2. muse a. A guiding spirit. b. A source of inspiration. 3. muse A poet. The muse has always fascinated me. The source of inspiration....
by Christine | Jul 13, 2014 | Welcome Column
“Je suis le champignon du monde avec chocolat au lait qui fond dans la bouche e non dans la main” For those of you who do not know French, the translation of the phrase just quoted means something like “I am the mushroom of the world with milk chocolate that melts in...