by Christine | Jul 14, 2019 | Welcome Column
I hate it when I play sloppy notes. We all play them and we all hate them. The question is what should we do about them? What can we do about them? The obvious answer to the second question is practice (actually three answers: practice, practice, practice). We all...
by Christine | Apr 19, 2011 | Welcome Column
My wife tells me that I’m a slow learner. That is to say, Lynn tells me what I should do, need to do, ought to do, for my own good, our good, for the dogs’ good, for the good of the United States of America, and I’m very slow to translate the lesson into concrete...
by Christine | Mar 11, 2012 | Welcome Column
A lot of people would say I live in a small town, but it doesn’t seem that way to me. Healdsburg is about the same size as the town I grew up in but since it sits right in the heart of the Sonoma County wine country, it’s harder to find a place where you...
by Christine | Mar 25, 2015 | Welcome Column
I love living in a small town! Now, let me admit, my “small town” isn’t super small. I know several CBA pals who live in REALLY small towns. My town, Martinez, has about 45,000 people in it, so my “real” small town friends may scoff at me. My wife and I love the...
by Christine | May 16, 2018 | Welcome Column
I love living in a small town! Now, let me admit, my “small town” isn’t super small. I know several CBA pals who live in REALLY small towns. My town, Martinez, has about 48,000 people in it, so my “real” small town friends may scoff at me. My wife and I love the...
by Christine | Sep 14, 2013 | Welcome Column
The Healdsburg Guitar Festival is not in Healdsburg; Healdsburg, California that is. That doesn’t seem to make sense, like much of what is going on in the world today. This guitar festival, that is held only once every two years, did actually start in Healdsburg,...