by Christine | May 12, 2011 | Welcome Column
Five days a week I begin my morning with breakfast and Jon Carroll’s column in the San Francisco Chronicle. Carroll always has something interesting to say; sometimes he’s really funny, sometimes political, sometimes touching and profound. This past Tuesday he wrote a...
by Christine | May 23, 2019 | Welcome Column
April 26 of 2017 was a very long and tiring day for me. It was one of those days when the clouds sat right down on the top of my mountain that the Lord has blessed me with to spend the final years of my life upon. It was one of those cold, light misting rainy days...
by Christine | Feb 4, 2017 | Welcome Column
I’ve learned a lot in my few years as a bluegrass devotee. Some of what I’ve learned has even helped me outside bluegrass, in an area that somehow I still think of as “real life.” I thought I’d assemble some of it in this short handy list, suitable for printing out...
by Christine | May 28, 2013 | Welcome Column
I’ve learned a lot in my few years as a bluegrass devotee. Some of what I’ve learned has even helped me outside bluegrass, in an area that somehow I still think of as “real life.” I thought I’d assemble some of it in this short handy list, suitable for printing out...
by Christine | Dec 2, 2007 | Welcome Column
Through the pines I hear, so clearly now, A song both old and new, Carried by a gentle breeze, As it peacefully passes through. With ageless hands so tenderly, It embraces, and holds me tight, A deep breath I take and am at ease, Upon this winter night. I scan the...
by Christine | Jun 25, 2020 | Welcome Column
Something FishyJust twenty minutes ago I was awash in stress hormones while riding the painful frenzy of simultaneous deadlines (Calculus midterm! Turn in tutoring hours! Gallery essay for Art History! Mount new tires! Spanish 4 presentation!). I had already exhausted...
by Christine | Mar 15, 2015 | Welcome Column
Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something blue, And a silver sixpence in her shoe This olde English rhyme describes a tradition of what brides should wear on their wedding day. Like most rhymes similar to this one, its origins are lost in history....
by Christine | Sep 16, 2015 | Welcome Column
I’ve always been a “glass half full” kind of person. On social media, I often try to deflect the “people are awful nowadays” or “america used to be great” posts with a dose of perspective. I still feel, in general, people are wonderful way more often than not, and our...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2015 | Welcome Column
I have a large collection of books, and when people see them, they have two questions: One, “Did you read all of those?”, and two. “Why keep ’em after you’ve read ‘em?” The fact is, I enjoy revisiting books. Many books (not all) have rewards in rereading them a...
by Christine | Mar 24, 2014 | Welcome Column
Playing music takes you to places and situations you’d probably never imagine. The first of the month, Mike Sr. and I traveled to the Lake Havasu festival Bluegrass on the Beach which is promoted by Larry & Sondra Baker. It’s such a great event and we love the...
