How I Spent My Rainy Weekend

Good Tuesday morning from Whiskey Creek, where our namesake water feature quite nearly overflowed its banks after four pretty intense days of rain over this past weekend. Not really any danger since there’s a secondary bank twenty feet up from the first created God...

How I was NOT in a movie

(Editor’s Note: I’d have to say that of all our Welcome columnists, one of the handful just seem never, ever to beg off a month is Mark Varner. Pretty amazing when you consider that the guy has a full time job producing copy and images on a deadline and a part-time...

How I was NOT in a movie

Dear friends, This was going to a column about how I was going to be in a movie. Yes, a real feature length film. Instead it’s a column about how I am NOT going to be in a movie. A few months ago a friend and I signed up on a website to be extras in a movie that was...

How Many Hats Can You Wear?

So your band is going into the studio to record their very first CD. You’re excited, you’ve planned and prepared and saved and re-planned and saved some more. You’re going to play more than one instrument. You’re going to sing lead on some...

How many instruments is too many?

Like most people, I only have two hands. Like a lot of other musicians, I play several instruments. So the short answer the above question is a simple formula of (Instruments I can play) X (Pairs of hands). But wait! I like to play both electric guitar AND acoustic...