Happy New Year

I’m ready to get back to normal. What is normal? No colored lights hanging from the gutters and ledges, the pine tree out of the living room and back outside, minus the lights and ornaments, drinking coffee from a real mug, without Christmas bears on them, all that is...

Happy New Year

Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where it is 3:15 a.m. and I am sitting in front of my computer updating the web site of the California Bluegrass Association as I have done for just shy seven months of fifteen years. What’s different about this particular morning,...

Happy New Year

I don’t think it matters much which side of the political divide you’re on, 2018 has been a very difficult year for we Americans, one that I think many of us bid a fond farewell to. Here’s hoping that during our next jaunt around the sun each and...

Happy New Year – Start It Right

(Web Team Note: Some may have noticed yesterday that we did not get Brooks Judd’s Welcome column up on the web site until the middle of the afternoon. This was a serious breach of our cbaontheweb.org protocol and the perpetrator has been severely disciplined. ( I sent...

Happy New Year – What Does it All Mean?

This is my first Welcome Column of 2020 – Happy new year!. Traditionally, I should say something important, pithy and clever about the milestone. But what pops into my head to say (my 61-year-old-head) is different than what my pop into your head, especially if...

Happy New Year!

Three great things about 2014: I got to be the Welcome Columnist for the day before Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s! Our notion of when a year begins or ends is arbitrary, of course. There’s nothing global or astronomically significant about...