by Christine | Jan 22, 2011 | Welcome Column
Some of you may know that I have a food blog, which is why so much of my writing has to do with comestibles , but I also share a blog (www.ProjectNewberyAward.blogspot.com) with my daughter Melinda in which we review children’s literature. I love everything about...
by Christine | May 5, 2018 | Welcome Column
The Orion constellation was almost straight overhead in the early autumn night sky. The blazing nebula of Orion’s sword, set in the crystalline black background, indicated that we were indeed in the wee hours of the morning. My fingers were feeling sawed off after...
by Christine | Sep 7, 2020 | Welcome Column
The Orion constellation was almost straight overhead in the early autumn night sky. The blazing nebula of Orion’s sword, set in the crystalline black background, indicated that we were indeed in the wee hours of the morning. My fingers were feeling sawed off after...
by Christine | Jan 8, 2014 | Welcome Column
1858 – Area settled, and named (modestly) by Colonel Thomas Baker, who allowed weary settlers to rest in his fields. 1873 – Bakersfield incorporated as a city. 1874 – JD Rhynes born on the future site of the Crystal Palace 1925 – Rose Maddox born – not in Bakersfield...
by Christine | Oct 23, 2017 | Welcome Column
For well over forty years now, men, women and children have gathered together in various spots around Northern California for a few days during the third week in October to sing and play and dance to the music of Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Skruggs and the...
by Christine | Oct 29, 2008 | Welcome Column
I wrote a column a while back called ?The Little Things?. It was about the things that can make certain venues more fun to play than others, if a whole lot of other factors are equal. I spoke of free meals and drinks for the band, a subject on which (as anyone who...
by Christine | Aug 11, 2016 | Welcome Column
I’m hoping for a full house Friday night, Sept. 2, when the Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley puts on a special benefit show for banjoist Bill Evans and his wife.Kathy Evans, a long-time kindergarten teacher in the Albany schools, has been having a...
by Christine | Nov 20, 2013 | Welcome Column
Author’s apology – I just flew in from New Orleans (boy are my arms tired!) and didn’t have a chance to write a new column for today – this is a reprise.. Some notable wit said that 90% of life is just showing up. That may be true, but a good...
by Christine | Feb 1, 2012 | Welcome Column
Some notable wit said that 90% of life is just showing up. That may be true, but a good 75% is also faking it. It’s how successful people get from point A to point B. It’s deep at the root of confidence, and I think it stokes the fires of creativity. When I was a kid,...
by Christine | Jun 25, 2014 | Welcome Column
You’d think with the week off I had I’d be brimming with pithy scrawlings. Alas, all I’m brimming with right now is a high fever. Some notable wit said that 90% of life is just showing up. That may be true, but a good 75% is also faking it. It’s how...
