It’s Not Pop

Why do we gravitate to certain kinds of music and not to others? I love bluegrass and old time music but my wife hates it. I used to listen to pop music like everybody else but these days if I have to answer a crossword puzzle entry with the letters adele or brunomars...

It’s Share Time!

When you find something that really makes you happy, that really turns your life around and feel very rewarding, you want to share that with people. This tendency is literally built into every evangelical faith – if you’ve seen the light, wouldn’t you want to spread...

It’s So Easy To Make It Difficult

I spent the weekend watching a lot of bluegrass on stage, some from the professional side of our genre and some from the still-amateur-but-quickly-moving-up side of the industry. It was a weekend with shining examples on both ends of the professional spectrum. The...

It’s That Time of Year

We have officially entered the part of the year that I struggle with the most. Every year I dread the holidays, for both rational and irrational reasons. It bothers me that Thanksgiving and Christmas have been reduced to nothing more than reasons to spend money. I...

It’s time…

(Editor’s Note: We’re running Mark’s Welcome column again because it’s so important. Nothing surpasses the importance of a smart, mature, fair-minded board of directors in ensuring that our Association continues to thrive.  RC)It is time...