by Christine | Aug 19, 2015 | Welcome Column
In the old days (like up until this week), this was my Wednesday morning routine: * Drive out to Herald, CA, where the CBA Web server was housed in a secret little wooden building in the middle of huge sheep pasture. Hint – there was crescent cut into the door....
by Christine | May 30, 2015 | Welcome Column
Why I Never Lie March 2004 I’m an honest person. But there was a time in my life, when I was young and eager to impress, that I sometimes stretched the truth. Nothing big, just a little exaggeration here, a little white lie there. Okay, even an occasional...
by Christine | Jan 18, 2004 | Welcome Column
I’m an honest person. But there was a time in my life, when I was young and eager to impress, that I sometimes stretched the truth. Nothing big, just a little exaggeration here, a little white lie there. Okay, even an occasional whopper. But what could be the...
by Christine | Dec 8, 2003 | Welcome Column
I’ve been asked by a few folks how I can keep this column up, day in, day out. Well, it’s mainly because I’m a terrific typist. One hundred-plus words a minute with few mistakes, and the mistakes I do make have more to do with poor spelling skills than with typing....
by Christine | Nov 27, 2019 | Welcome Column
I’ll keep this as short as I can, but it won’t be easy – I’m thankful for a great many things.First and foremost – family. I have a great, close-knit family. I can say for certain that this has been the case for at least five generations, and the value of...
by Christine | Oct 31, 2012 | Welcome Column
Occasionally, while schlepping a double bass up a flight of stairs after a three hour drive, I ask myself why I’m doing this. I’m sure many a 10-year-old asked the same question while practicing piano lessons on a sunny day while friends are outside enjoying the sun....
by Christine | May 19, 2007 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Rick Cornish (rcornish@sjcoe.net) Saturday May 19, 2007 When cbaontheweb.org was launched in October of 2001 the Welcome column contained no “I’s”. In fact, it didn’t contain much, and the only thing that changed from day to day in the...
by Christine | Jan 31, 2016 | Welcome Column
Back when the earth’s crust was cooling (the late ‘70s), I was part of Vancouver Co-op Radio’s first country music show. We’d already established programming based on local music, blues, jazz, and folk, so a mix of bluegrass, old time, classic country, swing,...
by Christine | May 8, 2012 | Welcome Column
In a recent commentary in the New Yorker, Adam Gropnik wrote about what he called the “Forty Year Itch.” Reflecting on the popular TV series “Mad Men,” he enunciates the Golden Forty-Year Rule: “The prime site of nostalgia is always whatever happened, or is thought to...
by Christine | Jan 3, 2018 | Welcome Column
Hey, what do you know – it’s a new year, again! More than I can remember, the general feeling I get is that 2017 was not a good year. As I think back on the years of my life (this was my 60th new year), I can’t easily ascribe good, or bad to any of them, though....
