by Christine | Apr 26, 2020 | Welcome Column
Surely you’ve all heard the old joke about the fellow marching along in thecircus parade, carrying a broom and dustpan and rolling a wheeled garbage canalong behind the elephants. And an old friend sees him and says, “You need todo something more worthwhile with your...
by Christine | Sep 5, 2019 | Welcome Column
Summer’s gone, mostly. I really don’t know where it went. When I last left you in August I was telling you about the Sutter Creek Jug Band festival my old friends (either connotation as usual) and I were prepping to play. The tour, as I am want to call it, included a...
by Christine | Jan 26, 2010 | Welcome Column
Last week in my Tuesday morning Welcome column I summarized our January board of directors meeting. In the paragraph on current rent negotiations with the Nevada County Fairgrounds board, I made the following statement….. Additionally, the fairgrounds people will,...
by Christine | Jul 24, 2011 | Welcome Column
Have you ever noticed that some of the most pleasant and fun experiences you’ve had were those that just “happened?” They weren’t planned, but the circumstances were just right, there was the right combination of people, the timing was perfect, weather was great,...
by Christine | Mar 17, 2009 | Welcome Column
We all want to be liked. It’s in our human make up, in our genes. And I think if you had to identify a category of people by whom we’d all like to be liked, it would have to be in-laws. And more importantly, mothers-in-law and fathers-in-law. And for we men, MOST...
by Christine | Jan 5, 2017 | Welcome Column
Made it, I’m done until next year! Only had to play those dang christmas songs four or five times this year. I had 4 gigs in December before Christmas, all with different players. These aren’t bands just groups of musicians playing “casuals”, as my...