by Christine | Jun 2, 2017 | Welcome Column
Item 1: During January-March of 1963 (my freshman year at Hayward High) a strange phenomenon was occurring. President Kennedy, our youthful president, had chided Americans, especially the youth about being out of shape. Someone in his administration had come up with a...
by Christine | Aug 23, 2016 | Welcome Column
There is so much music in poetry and poetry in music (and I hope I don’t have to convince you of this!) that I just merge the two into one without thinking. I don’t worry about such things since I know that art is not physical reality. Toward the end of...
by Christine | Jun 26, 2018 | Welcome Column
Forgiveness – ah, divine art -is never took to stage.To see our self as others dois sure to just enrage.Why don’t they simply always knowwe meant to silent stayand not to call them ghastly namesand trash their happy days?- Charles BradyI’ve never really been a good...
by Christine | Aug 16, 2012 | Welcome Column
Once again the normally quiet Bolado Park at the San Bonito County Fairgrounds came alive with the sound of bluegrass music. I hope you didn’t miss this event, but if you did, mark your calendars for the second weekend in August, 2013 now! This is a “not to miss”...
by Christine | Jan 25, 2020 | Welcome Column
I have been sharing with you my memories, thoughts and dreams since December of 2015. Every write taught me something about myself that I didn’t think about or notice before. Every write a piece of me, self-deemed important enough to commit to ink. Every write with a...
by Christine | May 28, 2018 | Welcome Column
As those who have been reading my columns will probably know, last year I wrote and published a book with the title High Lonesome Below Sea Level: Faces and Stories of Bluegrass Music in the Netherlands. It features 56 full-page black-and-white portrait photographs...
