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...
by Christine | Nov 9, 2013 | Welcome Column
Bessie named her upright acoustic bass, “Helen.” This was done because of the fond memory of her great grandmother, who also was a bass player. So Bessie did herself proud by nurturing the musical branches of her family tree. The diminutive, somewhat frail Bessie...
by Christine | Nov 7, 2015 | Welcome Column
During the past couple of weeks in the Low Lands, hommage has been given to two great banjo players who are no longer with us. The news of Bill Keith’s passing has been received with sadness all over Europe, as many people not only greatly respected and admired him as...
by Christine | Apr 28, 2015 | Welcome Column
Hello from Whiskey Creek, where the rain we had over the weekend and the mid to high 80’s sun shine we’re having this week promises to coax into bloom the last hold outs. (That same one-two punch will also cause an explosion of tasty shoots from our lawn, to the sheer...
by Christine | Dec 16, 2018 | Welcome Column
Abject apologies for posting my column late. I actually got up early this morning focused on getting a storage shed built before the rains come this afternoon. Sometimes tunnel vision gets some things accomplished at the expense of others. But I did get the shed up...
by Christine | Sep 20, 2009 | Welcome Column
This week I’m just about all wrote out. I’ve been in the midst of what I call “grant writing hell” and have been oh so slowly, excruciatingly, painfully plodding along writing my sections of a large grant that will probably end up well over 200 pages. All the...
