by Christine | Feb 19, 2012 | Welcome Column
I swear there is a CBA conspiracy to hold events on every third weekend just to make my welcome column more difficult to write. The campouts seem to fall on third weekends, Grass Valley runs over the third weekend, and the winter music camp definitely is on this third...
by Christine | Oct 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
When I was in my early twenties playin’ in a low rent Rock & Roll bar band, I joined the musicians union. My dope addled thought process had surmised that union musicians make more money than non union musicians, and since a ham sandwich would have been more than...
by Christine | Nov 23, 2013 | Welcome Column
What makes social media social? Why is it such a popular medium for communication? More importantly why do we as a society think that we need – underscore NEED – to communicate with people we don’t know? And finally, what is so popular about the USE of social...
by Christine | Nov 17, 2009 | Welcome Column
I never understood Lloyd Butlers sense of rhythm until I saw Jimmy Rodgers on an old film clip. I think the song he was playing was “T for Texas”. I remember sitting back in my chair and saying to my myself, “He’s playing that like Lloyd.” Then I thought, no, Lloyd’s...
by Christine | Feb 21, 2019 | Welcome Column
A few months back I was browsing the shelves in a local thrift shop and pulled out a book entitled ‘Laurel Canyon’ by Michael Walker. In truth the title didn’t mean much to me, but I was intrigued by the explanatory subtitle “The inside story of rock and roll’s...
by Christine | Jun 3, 2010 | Welcome Column
It’s an immutable law of fate that everything that happens to us in life affects everything else that happens to us. Seemingly unrelated events have repercussions that may profoundly affect our lives far down the road. For example, many years ago, I began my...
