by Christine | Feb 26, 2011 | Welcome Column
A book creates a world with all the sensory elements we experience in the real life, some doing it better than others. It’s not easy to use words on a page to describe a smell, a sound, a taste. In stories I have written, I’ve tried to make the reader hear the most...
by Christine | Nov 9, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–Please join me in welcoming our newest Welcome columnist, Kay Nichols. We met her Wednesday afternoon at the Lodi camp out and she was hooked, reeled in and indoctrinated before dark. But seriously, Kay, WELCOME. ...
by Christine | Nov 11, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–Okay, this one REALLY IS Kay’s Welcome column. I won’t offer an excuse for mistakenly plugging in Ellie Withnall’s “Humidity,” column set to air later this month because, hey, you know what they say about...
by Christine | Nov 3, 2018 | Welcome Column
“I may be growing older, but I refuse to grow up.” Many of us have seen that slogan on bumper stickers and T-shirts. For me, it is more than a slogan; it’s a mantra, a way of life.We often hear someone express regrets along the lines of “I hate to miss the...
by Christine | May 6, 2010 | Welcome Column
“I may be growing older, but I refuse to grow up.” Many of us have seen that slogan on bumper stickers and T-shirts. For me, it is more than a slogan; it’s a mantra, a way of life. We often hear someone express regrets along the lines of “I hate to miss the...
by Christine | Nov 29, 2015 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note…After posting other people’s Welcome columns for twelve or thirteen years now, I find myself attempting to hone in on the raison d’être of our various writers. Why do they do it? Is there some theme that they return...
by Christine | Dec 9, 2008 | Welcome Column
Finally, it’s starting to get cold in the mornings. We still haven’t had any moisture, but we are getting the lower temperatures. Good, I’m glad it’s cold. It’s about time. I say that now because it’s only been cold for a short period of time. I’m willing to bet you...
by Christine | Dec 18, 2007 | Welcome Column
I know of one talented washtub bass player that when attending festivals, would sneak up on a group that didn’t have a bass, hide behind a car so as not to break up the jam, and play until they would notice and start asking. “Who’s playing the...
by Christine | Dec 25, 2011 | Welcome Column
We were playing and singing “I’ll Fly Away” at a Christmas gathering when the text came into my cell that Warren Hellman had passed away. As we finished the song, I told everyone that I had just received some terrible news and there was silence in the room after I...
by Christine | Nov 25, 2019 | Welcome Column
There can be times when as a musician you get tired of the stuff you are playing, and you may echo the cry of Iggy Pop in 1979, and a decade earlier by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, “I’m bored!” What to do if you need inspiration to progress with your music? I typed...
