Don’t mess with zebras

Saturday morning is my favorite day of the week to write the Welcome column. Even though I’m partly retired, weekends are still officially kick-back days for me: I always sleep a little later than usual; I don’t set my sites too high accomplishment-wise;...

DOWN

Please forgive us. The CBA site cannot be updated due to Internet connection problems up here in the mountains. Please be patient.Rick

Down Home Bluegrass

I played a little Bluegrass festival this weekend: The first annual Loma Vista Farm Bluegrass Festival. I don’t know anything of the story of how the festival came about, how the festival fared against the promoters and/or backers’ expectations, or the prospects of...

Down on the Corner

For the past six years or so we’ve been fortunate to have a very nice coffeehouse down the street that features live music. The Velo Rouge Café has become our home field, so to speak. We’ve had many memorable evenings there and have enjoyed the best of local Americana...

Downsizing Is Not For Wimps

As many of you know, my 97 year old mother-in-law, Lorene, passed away on September 9. She would have turned 98 on Christmas Eve. I’m thinking that the song title, “I’ve Lived A Lot in My Time,” pretty well sums things up for her. She was born in 1913, just ten years...