by Christine | Nov 27, 2018 | Welcome Column
This is going to be about the gentle art of persuasion through the VOTING process.BUT FIRST – A WORD FROM MY HOUSE-MATE : If you are in or near San Francisco in December, you MUST NOT MISS: Lee Brady’s Country/Western Musical -“SOUTHERN LIGHTS,” which returns after...
by Christine | Sep 1, 2016 | Welcome Column
I purport the following to be an accurate accounting of a band, in multiple connotations of the word, playing two gigs in a week apart. All of the participants are receiving Social Security checks (on the dole so to speak.) No names are mentioned except mine. It was...
by Christine | Nov 15, 2015 | Welcome Column
Kicking Off Our Run-Up to Music Camp 2016 by Geoff Sargent and Peter LangstonSunday November 15, 2015Some of you might know that at least one of the authors (and I suspect both) have a fondness for Monty Python and an overactive imagination for all things...
by Christine | Feb 14, 2017 | Welcome Column
All I can say about that is thank goodness for the Godfather movie. If you haven’t seen that movie (released in 1972), then you have probably been living on Mars, and that’s only because there’s no cable t.v. on Mars… yet. Of course, there...
by Christine | May 5, 2017 | Welcome Column
I suppose it is only natural that someone who hates waste has also made a habit of making do. It seems those things go hand in hand, although when I think about it, there certainly is no requirement for them to go together. It is a fairly logical step from repurposing...
by Christine | Mar 20, 2017 | Welcome Column
Sometime during the recent unpleasantness (hospital talk), THAT question raised itself up again and hit me in the eye. No, not THAT question – the other one about who is deserving enough to be given a second act and …who should be kicked in the butt...
by Christine | Sep 25, 2018 | Welcome Column
GRAND OLD OPRYAt the Civic Centerwatching George Jones singHe Stopped Loving Her Today,I thought, Hell he’s drunkas a skunk! As drunkas daddy in 1958when the two of us out huntingheard Roy Acuff singGreat Speckled Birdon the pickup radio – WSM.That night I learned...
by Christine | Sep 13, 2012 | Welcome Column
This often is described as a quote from Mark Twain. Actually, it’s a paraphrase, as I discovered as I began researching on the interwebs a few minutes ago. The internet is so amazing (and Google’s ability to sort through millions of entries in a fraction of a second);...
by Christine | Sep 15, 2017 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Well, some mornings just never go quite the way they’re supposed to. We’ve got a very thoughtful, heartwarming column from a guest writer, Kara Kundert, and I’ve spent the last hour trying to load her into our columnist...
by Christine | Jan 18, 2019 | Welcome Column
The time to write rolls around once more and I find myself on a soap box. I don’t claim any personal ownership of this particular soap box; I certainly didn’t invent it. There have been many who have stood on it and shouted to the point of exhaustion in hopes that...
