by Christine | Apr 8, 2020 | Welcome Column
Thomas Paine wrote those words seen above. He had a way with words, didn’t he? We have been hearing for years how transformative the modern age is. How fast we went from primitive word processors and fax machines to the Information Superhighway. Well, folks, that was...
by Christine | Dec 16, 2013 | Welcome Column
As I look at my hands right now they tell a story. They look wrinkled, betraying my age. I can still see a couple of scars on my left thumb where a saw bounced off as I tried to make fuel for a camp fire on Bull Island thirty two years ago. Fifteen years after that, I...
by Christine | Oct 6, 2013 | Welcome Column
Dear Abby, Most likely, anyone attaining the age of fifty or older knows what a hardware store should smell like. I’ll be 55 in a short few weeks and feel fortunate to be old enough to remember a world before hardware stores grew to be the size of of Rhode Island. My...
by Christine | May 23, 2017 | Welcome Column
Well, this may be a bit nostalgic, but there is nostalgic and then there is NOSTALGIC! I have been away from “the old home place” for more years that you can count, but I can still recall the sounds and smells of the marshes of my home of my early years – in...
by Christine | Mar 14, 2021 | Welcome Column
Ten things to love about Covid: 1. Reexamining what’s important in your life. Let’s face it. The pandemic has forced us all to confront our unresolved demons and hopefully deal with them because we have been faced with the specter of possible death. That specter has...
by Christine | Apr 24, 2019 | Welcome Column
Yesterday was my birthday. 61 years ago yesterday, I was wrested from my mother’s womb, 7 weeks ahead of schedule. I wasn’t supposed to survive, but I did anyway. It wasn’t that long ago that I considered 61 years old to be really, really old. I don’t think that now....
by Christine | Apr 20, 2011 | Welcome Column
Hanging out at Camp Spam will lead to fun pickin’. I think I already knew this, but once again, I found it a good place to park my carcass and pick with whoever shows up, so this notion was reinforced. The Brandlis’ reputation for hospitality is well-known and well...
by Christine | Apr 23, 2015 | Welcome Column
I don’t know anybody in this world that cannot say the aforementioned statement with any truth to it. We all wish we had not done some things, and in retrospect after the moment has passed, we all wish we had done certain things. Every year as the month of June...
by Christine | Sep 25, 2015 | Welcome Column
There are lots of technical musical tidbits that I wish I had known earlier in my playing (“Really, the notes in an arpeggio are the notes that make up a chord? Why didn’t anyone ever tell me this?” is genuinely a conversation that I had after about 18 months of...
by Christine | May 11, 2018 | Welcome Column
There are lots of technical musical tidbits that I wish I had known earlier in my playing (“Really, the notes in an arpeggio are the notes that make up a chord? Why didn’t anyone ever tell me this?” is genuinely a conversation that I had after about 18 months of...
