by Christine | Mar 25, 2012 | Welcome Column
I have a thing for “sticky notes.” They can be found stuck on the refrigerator, the kitchen table, around the computer, the dash of my car, the night stand, and a stray one might even be found on the bottom of my shoe or the seat of my pants. Every time I hear a song...
by Christine | Aug 3, 2018 | Welcome Column
Many of you awoke this morning with a smile on your face because FIRST FRIDAYS are Brooks Judd Welcome column days. And as usual first thing this morning Brooksie dutifully emailed his Welcome to me. I could read it (and it’s a good one) but I cannot copy and...
by Christine | Jun 4, 2020 | Welcome Column
How am I doing? Yep, I’m still reasonable but it is taking more work to stay that way. As this viral attack continues, I am more and more missing playing with people. Other than being wth and holding my grandchildren, that’s what I miss most. I’m doing reasonably well...
by Christine | Mar 13, 2010 | Welcome Column
“Boxcar Bertha,” the movie, and “Sister of the Road,” the book, are both fiction. The author of the “autobiographical” book, Ben Reitman (1879 – 1942), had a background as a doctor, writer, and hobo (among other things). The screen play of the movie (based loosely on...
by Christine | Mar 27, 2008 | Welcome Column
Howdy folks. My good friend Smoky Silver sent me this story here awhile back, and I was reading it again last Saturday. It is such a soul moving story, and since Saturday was the day before Easter, I thought it would be wonderful to share this with all of you folks. I...
by Christine | Aug 2, 2011 | Welcome Column
Seeing that giant banjo made by Don Timmer and his wife for their wedding ceremony and party a few years back started me thinking about the potential for banjos and just general strangeness. So I’ve done some research. Mayhem in Montgomery Police arrived at the home...
by Christine | Sep 1, 2007 | Welcome Column
Seeing that giant banjo made by Don Timmer and his wife for their wedding ceremony and party a few years back started me thinking about the potential for banjos and just general strangeness. So I’ve done some research. Mayhem in Montgomery Police arrived at the home...
by Christine | Apr 19, 2020 | Welcome Column
Yep…they are at that strange, weird, surreal, and for me a wee claustrophobic. Last month somehow my new puppy got loose and posted a column. I must apologize for that. It has been 16 years since I last had to raise a puppy and I forgot just how disruptive and sneaky...
by Christine | Mar 18, 2012 | Welcome Column
Strange thing this music. It can make us stand up and dance, it can make us cry, make us wistful, happy, joyous, angry, content. Music can calm our emotions, music accompanies us to war and is played to mourn our dead. It’s everywhere we go. It never stops amazing me,...
by Christine | Jun 13, 2020 | Welcome Column
Okay, okay. Since there is no Strawberry Musical Festival (as well as FDF Grass Valley) this year(2020), let’s get in the time machine and take more than a few steps back in time to 1987.It’s 1987, and I’m making my way from the Sonoma Valley to Camp Mather, near...
