by Christine | Mar 20, 2011 | Welcome Column
If you google “A Beautiful Life” a pretty diverse list of websites falls out, including a site for cosmetics and several hits for a movie directed by Alejandro Chomski…but not the gospel song done by Bill Monroe. For that you have to include an additional term like...
by Christine | Nov 1, 2009 | Welcome Column
“Hello! Anybody home?” Of course, nobody was home this time in the afternoon. It was my sophomore year in college and I was dropping by my parents’ place hoping to snag the Sunday dinner leftovers before anybody came home. Something, however, felt out of place. The...
by Christine | Nov 2, 2014 | Welcome Column
There’s two things that all 13 to 14 year olds really enjoy: hearing horror stories and telling horror stories. A few weeks ago, we read Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” in class. Naturally class participation and test scores just leaped through the ceiling for this unit of...
by Christine | Dec 11, 2008 | Welcome Column
In the little town of Crockett along the Carquinez Strait, where I grew up, bicycles were a big deal. Even though the town is mostly hills, and very steep ones, everybody had a bicycle. But not me. I’m guessing I was about ten years old when I started seriously...
by Christine | Oct 3, 2015 | Welcome Column
After having heard nothing but raving reviews about it for 10 years, I finally made it to my first edition of IBMA World of Bluegrass! What an overwhelming experience. It might have been a bit naive to make the very first trip all by myself, because it’s a big...
by Christine | Dec 1, 2017 | Welcome Column
Friday, December 1, 2017 </b>“The true patriotism, the only national patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation all the time…. loyalty to the government when they deserve it.” Mark Twain.I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving holiday. Sheila and I motored to...
