by Christine | Jan 29, 2004 | Welcome Column
I enjoy cooking a lot a lot. Which is to say I enjoy cooking lots of food for lots of people. I’m told I do pretty well cooking for large groups, but that’s not always been the case. Mid way into adulthood, I’d never cooked at all. I was a wood worker and loved...
by Christine | Jul 7, 2014 | Welcome Column
Dear Friends, The Father’s Day Festival was just a bunch of fun! So good, in fact, that we skipped my son Marty’s high school graduation ceremony to get up there on Thursday. Of course these days everyone is in immediate and direct contact with everyone else, what...
by Christine | May 14, 2009 | Welcome Column
Today’s Welcome Column from George Martin Thursday, May 14, 2009 At the the Turlock campout we ended up right next to Jim Genaw and Mikki Feeney. Besides a lot of excellent music, we enjoyed just hanging out at their camp, fondly remembering the now-defunct festival...
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...
