by Christine | Jun 28, 2019 | Welcome Column
A while back, trying to be funny, I coined the phrase “three basses is one too many” to describe my collection of upright basses and in particular, too many, from my wife Linda’s point of view. All were out and scattered through a couple of rooms in our house. I would...
by Christine | Mar 22, 2011 | Welcome Column
First, let me stipulate, I’ve been sick. I know, having a cold doesn’t sound like it’s that big of a deal, but this has been a HUGE cold. Rumbling deep in my chest, sinuses impacted like wisdom teeth, arsenic-like achiness. This has been my seventh day and finally I’m...
by Christine | Nov 19, 2017 | Welcome Column
Scamp: an impish or playful (young) personScoundrel: a disreputable person: a rascalScallywag: scamp, reprobateIn most walks of my life I run into a few notable people…some better avoided, but some are notable for their creative approach to living life, more so living...
by Christine | Jun 10, 2012 | Welcome Column
I’ve been looking forward to this day all year, the day when I can say goodbye to the work a day world and just be myself for a while. Okay, so I have to write a welcome column before I go. Big deal. I can just mail that in. Nobody will notice. They’re all...
by Christine | Aug 3, 2020 | Welcome Column
Dear friends,Monday is my usual Welcome column day, but Rick and I switched this week. Rick thinks I fall back on the easy-to-hoe row of writing “birthday columns,” but I simply use the occasion of the anniversary of a performer’s birth as an excuse to talk about some...
by Christine | Jun 4, 2012 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Years ago, when CBA webmaster Rick Cornish invited me to join him in posting welcome messages for visitors to cbaontheweb.org, it was a weekly task for me. It was not long before I was scrambling for topics even remotely related to bluegrass. And unlike...
