by Christine | Mar 25, 2015 | Welcome Column
I love living in a small town! Now, let me admit, my “small town” isn’t super small. I know several CBA pals who live in REALLY small towns. My town, Martinez, has about 45,000 people in it, so my “real” small town friends may scoff at me. My wife and I love the...
by Christine | May 16, 2018 | Welcome Column
I love living in a small town! Now, let me admit, my “small town” isn’t super small. I know several CBA pals who live in REALLY small towns. My town, Martinez, has about 48,000 people in it, so my “real” small town friends may scoff at me. My wife and I love the...
by Christine | Sep 14, 2013 | Welcome Column
The Healdsburg Guitar Festival is not in Healdsburg; Healdsburg, California that is. That doesn’t seem to make sense, like much of what is going on in the world today. This guitar festival, that is held only once every two years, did actually start in Healdsburg,...
by Christine | Nov 9, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where instead of Jack Daniels, our stream runs with ice cold water for the first time since last March, where a stone walk-way leading from the house to our parking compound lies half-completed and is likely to remain so for quite a...
by Christine | May 11, 2012 | Welcome Column
Surrounded by cough syrup and Kleenex at four-thirty in the morning, I’m thinking about Smiley camp, where I’m not gonna be this weekend. I was supposed to be. I meant to be, but life has a way of changing your schedule. The Rumiano’s yearly bash is an event I...