by Christine | Oct 5, 2012 | Welcome Column
Item 1: Last week we had a belated 6th birthday party for my grandson. He had told his mother that for part of his birthday celebration he wanted to perform with his Grumpy (me) some selected music on the banjo and my beloved bass. My grandson came over a day early...
by Christine | Nov 4, 2011 | Welcome Column
1. Call me sentimental, call me crazy, but there are many things we can be grateful for. 2. In our CBA community, we actually had people running for positions on the CBA Board. I certainly don’t want to rain on the parade but wouldn’t it be exciting to see some folks...
by Christine | Oct 4, 2013 | Welcome Column
1. I watch with measured regret as my brothers and sisters become more attached and obsessed to the latest revelations in cell phones. The more we become “connected” the more we become emotionally detached. The air waves are infested with the newest and latest “must...
by Christine | Sep 7, 2018 | Welcome Column
Folks: Mr. Judd had his left knee surgically removed and replaced last Tuesday at Kaiser in Modesto. Things went well but to say I feel chipper and not hurting would be an untruth. I spoke to Mr. Cornish about covering for me which he agreed to do. In the...
by Christine | May 4, 2012 | Welcome Column
My mother grew up during the Depression. She shared a tiny house surrounded by alfalfa fields with her two sisters and four brothers just a few hundred yards away from the Old River in Tracy. They would walk the mile and a half to school, crossing the Old River Bridge...
by Christine | Sep 7, 2012 | Welcome Column
After 8 years without a vacation together it was time for one. Sheila and I began to make plans for a long deserved vacation, together. We decided on a 10 day voyage to Alaska. Sheila was enthused about a cruise, and her enthusiasm rubbed off on me. After we made our...
by Christine | Sep 4, 2009 | Welcome Column
Item: # 1: I had written my column about my Isleton experience and saved it. Monday morning the “Home from the Delta” column, written by another Welcomer, appeared. As I read the column I realized that it was saying just about the same thing I had written. What to do?...
by Christine | Jan 7, 2011 | Welcome Column
1. Well, Happy New Year to you all. I spent a quiet New Years Eve evening with our two dogs, Pepper and Chloe, and our cat, Piper watching some Netflix Movies wishing that my wife were here with me to bring in the New Year. Sheila had just a few days remaining on her...
by Christine | Mar 3, 2011 | Welcome Column
Last month I shared my memories of three wonderful teachers that influenced my life. I believe the cycle goes on as we attempt to pay things forward and show compassion, care, and love for people that enter into our lives for perhaps a brief instant or perhaps even a...
by Christine | Jul 1, 2016 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Family obligations (the fun kind) a Giants game and other miscellaneous conflicts forced Brooks to request we run one of his archived missals and of course we agreed. Here’s a 2011 anti-tribute to one of the meanest, most inept...
