by Christine | Jun 3, 2012 | Welcome Column
A friend of mine once likened me to a trout: you put something bright, shiny, and new under my nose and I’ll bite. That’s the way I am with new projects—i.e., I just can’t resist the lure of testing uncharted skills and challenges. I believe that our wily...
by Christine | Jan 22, 2012 | Welcome Column
If someone were to ask me to describe my Christmas of 1984, I wouldn’t be able to recall a thing about it. As a matter of fact, I can’t remember a thing about the whole year of 1984 or 1983 and many other years for that matter. I have large blocks of time that I can’t...
by Christine | Feb 24, 2016 | Welcome Column
I’ve been viewing a LOT of live music. All kinds of music (well, light on modern jazz), and all kinds of skill levels. I’ve discovered some things, mostly about myself I guess. One is, live music is usually exhilarating. One is, the activity brings out the analyst in...
by Christine | Feb 10, 2013 | Welcome Column
Everybody knows the term “red neck”. It’s usually used in a derogatory fashion to refer to unsophisticated southerners. Hillbilly. Cracker. White trash. Not something you’d want to be it seems, and yet some southerners have adopted the term to...
by Christine | Mar 21, 2013 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where the wife and the dogs and the llamas and the two cats are sawing logs while I sit waiting for the sun to come up. Each morning I spend an hour or so sipping coffee and visiting a dozen or so web sites getting my fix of news...
by Christine | May 16, 2013 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where my special, once each year list that’s headed Things to Do Before Grass Valley is mercifully down to a mere 32 items, items like: download audible.com book for I-Phone (I listen to books like the twenty-two hunredred page Rise...
by Christine | Dec 14, 2014 | Welcome Column
One of the great things about the music we all love is that there is so much room for interpretation. Any good artist can take a tune people have heard many times before and put their own spin on it. As a listener, I’m often wedded to the first version I hear of a...
by Christine | Dec 4, 2011 | Welcome Column
Thanksgiving really begins a Holiday season long period of reflection and thanksgiving for all the great blessings in life. Sometimes Americans take for granted how wonderful life has been to them, even in the toughest of times. Maybe I’m a sentimental, sappy guy, but...
by Christine | Jul 30, 2015 | Welcome Column
Thursday, July 30, 2015 (Editor’s Note: Each of our Welcome columnists develops over time a sort of a telltale signature or fingerprint, a quality or characteristic that can be found in each of her pieces. Marcos’ was there almost from the beginning; regardless of...
by Christine | Jul 9, 2012 | Welcome Column
Well it is 2:20 a.m. on July 9th as I write this column. We were notified a few hours ago that the Mill Fire is coming towards my home and that mandatory evacuation is likely sometime after sunrise but they are not sure when. The sky all around us is a haunting orange...
