by Christine | Sep 17, 2016 | Welcome Column
I’m posting this late Friday night, not too long after being joyfully thrashed and soaked for five hours on a South Fork American River rafting excursion with American Whitewater Expeditions. In the aftermath tonight I’m experiencing a deeply contented buzz that comes...
by Christine | Jun 24, 2017 | Welcome Column
Harry lost Mildred last year. He’s been flying around Cedarville like some old crow looking for some chicks: most unbecoming. His sister Hilda expressed distaste for his lurid and unmentionable choices. She didn’t seem to care that he was lost...
by Christine | May 3, 2009 | Welcome Column
Ah, springtime: warm and sunny, gentle breezes, pleasant evenings. Sound like spring where you are? If it is, you’re a very fortunate individual, weather-wise. I have heard about places like that before, but I have not actually experienced that particular...
by Christine | May 13, 2016 | Welcome Column
What is it about hats and musicians? It just don’t seem right to play music with an undressed head. Mark Evans recently asked why so many bluegrass bands wear cowboy hats with the one side pressed upward. Cowboys don’t wear their hats that way, because the...
by Christine | Apr 10, 2012 | Welcome Column
I know. Bill Monroe wore a Stetson hat looking something like a cowboy hat as did Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. The Johnson Mountain Boys all wore cowboy hats. They’re traditional apparel for bluegrass bands. Of course, Monroe wore jodhpurs, too, in...
by Christine | Dec 21, 2011 | Welcome Column
I received a lot of wonderful responses when I wrote about having to put my dog down about a year ago. I was thoroughly shaken by how tightly that dumb dawg wrapped herself around my heart, and shocked at the depth of my grief. Lots of folks helpfully suggested I...
by Christine | Jun 29, 2017 | Welcome Column
I know. Bill Monroe wore a Stetson hat looking something like a cowboy hat as did Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. The Johnson Mountain Boys all wore cowboy hats. They’re traditional apparel for bluegrass bands. Of course, Monroe wore jodhpurs, too, in...
by Christine | Feb 13, 2015 | Welcome Column
There’s this guy I work with. I never much liked him. Sort of a buttoned down fellow…an analyticals’ analytical. Everything in it’s place. A business man always taking care of business. And me, well I’m kind of a child of the 70’s. Sort of free flowing,...
by Christine | Dec 21, 2013 | Welcome Column
My Uncle Ray, just fifty seven, died two days ago, early on Thursday morning. At the end of a grueling battle with cancer, he unexpectedly sat up in bed that Thursday morning and embraced his wife and son in a hug of grace. He died in their arms. When mom told me the...
by Christine | Aug 22, 2007 | Welcome Column
My esteemed colleague Rick Cornish often takes some ribbing when his uses his pets, particularly his dogs, as the subject of the Welcome Message. What is not so well known is, when I hired on as a regular contributor to the Welcome Message, I was forced to sign a...
