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...

Happy Thanksgiving

There’s much I like about my volunteer jobs for the CBA; probably my single favorite derives from my web master’s job, since each holiday I get to write a greeting from the California Bluegrass Association to, well, the entire world. A big responsibility...

Harbingers of Spring

“When the springtime comes on the mountain, and the wildflowers scatter o’er the plains, I will watch for the leaves to return to the trees, and I’ll be waiting when the springtime comes again.” Last summer and fall I did some landscaping in our backyard. Everything...