by Christine | Jul 4, 2014 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Let me be the first to say a very Happy 4th of July. The memory of our historical Fourth brings to mind the story about the patriotic Yank yakking it up with an equally patriotic Brit in a bar in downtown New York City at the annual 4th of July Parade. The...
by Christine | Dec 5, 2014 | Welcome Column
Item 1: October 1970. A friend of mine had a cat that had just had a litter. He asked if I would like to pick out one for my own.I said OK and went to his house and saw six tiny kittens all curled up beneath their mother.My eyes fell on a gray Persian mix and I knew...
by Christine | Nov 7, 2014 | Welcome Column
Item 1: San Francisco Giants: What else is there to say but “Jolly good show! The SF Giants are a class A organization from the top on down. They have a great ball park, with a grand history. Three World Series in five years and sell outs to every game.Someone...
by Christine | Jun 6, 2014 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Something tells me that next week is a big event for the CBA.It seems like only yesterday it was 1987 and I drove up with my wife and young daughters to watch Rick perform on stage at Grass Valley. How much music have been joyfully played since then? I...
by Christine | May 1, 2015 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Welcome back Mr. Cornish! I know why you never lie and always tell the truth but…. You tell me your heart doctor is Dr. Gerry Actrick and his surgical team is called “the Pacemakers?” C’mon Rick that sounds like something I would manufacture in my...
by Christine | May 2, 2014 | Welcome Column
Item 7: (Cont. from March).I am at the surgical clinic being asked the usual pre-surgical questions by the nurse and her last question is,“John, are you being abused at home?” I give her a strange look and she continues,”I have to ask you that.” I replied with a...
by Christine | Jan 2, 2015 | Welcome Column
Welcome to 2015: A few thoughts I would like to share with you. 1: I will no longer “embellish” stories or tales from the past with accounts of incidents that do strain the limits of reality.I am a grown man approaching the age of 40 and after several stories in the...
by Christine | Oct 3, 2014 | Welcome Column
What a drag it is getting old….. “Kids are different today,” I hear every mother say Mother needs something today to calm her down Add though she’s not really ill, there’s a little yellow pill She goes running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper, And it...
by Christine | Nov 4, 2016 | Welcome Column
“Very often tangerine elephants float over rosemary hills in lazy legions amid redolent youth.” This is one of the lines I offered up to our current Nobel winner in Literature, unfortunately Bobby was either too busy to write back or he is just waiting for the...
by Christine | Sep 1, 2017 | Welcome Column
A sad goodbye to Sunshine. You will be missed. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Lou and the family.It has been a long six months since our house flooded due to a faulty part on a washing machine. Today the last piece of tile has been cut and placed, the tiled floor...
