by Christine | Oct 15, 2012 | Welcome Column
Yesterday, we went for an imaginary bike ride through Sonoma County during the crush season, the season, right about now, when all the grapes are harvested to make wines that are prized the world over. It’s a truly beautiful time of year. A good time to play...
by Christine | Oct 23, 2019 | Welcome Column
This week I will be posting pictures on Facebook of the lucky winners of the CBA raffle. Many, many thanks to all who purchased tickets, and helped support the CBA’s IBMA involvement. You are ALL winners in the eyes of Karma, and in my eyes. And your generosity has...
by Christine | Sep 3, 2011 | Welcome Column
They say you win some and you lose some. August was something like that for me, although the winner was a big one and the loser a minor disappointment, in the grand scheme of things. Winner: The Summergrass festival in Vista (San Diego area). In years past, I had a...
by Christine | Feb 2, 2017 | Welcome Column
Hey the good news is that the dreaded drought has been at least temporarily beaten into submission. Other than that, it hasn’t been a great winter for me. Supposedly, I come from hardy stock. I grew up in a place where early on I learned the meaning of the term...
by Christine | Nov 14, 2012 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—This morning Bruce sent a panicky email to the cbaontheweb.org Towers explaining that he’d written his regular Wednesday morning Welcome but had forgotten it at home and was not in his office. (Contemporary variation on dog eating homework.) He asked...
