by Christine | May 6, 2013 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where the days-long whacking of weeds will finally come to an end no later than Wednesday, Thursday being Parkfield departure day. Fire hazard abatement, Round One, will give way to the likes of Roland White, Junior Blankenship and...
by Christine | Dec 29, 2015 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where the Christmas holiday continues today with the arrival of our son number two and his little family. Peter and Summer and Ted and Lucy will arrive in the early afternoon; Phillip and Ivona and Lexy and Ava visited over the...
by Christine | Feb 19, 2019 | Welcome Column
This is a re-post of an interview that previously appeared in the CBA Breakdown.Tonya NewstetterTonya plays guitar, sings and writes most of the songs for the band Old Belle that she co-founded. We chatted on the Bearcat Stringband’s couch at the Good Old Fashioned...
by Christine | May 15, 2018 | Welcome Column
Tonya plays guitar, sings and writes most of the songs for the band Old Belle that she co-founded. We chatted on the Bearcat Stringband’s couch at the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival this year.db: How did you get started playing music?tn: I grew up with music....
by Christine | Apr 19, 2018 | Welcome Column
Too busy!A UK television commercial for a well-known credit card caught my attention a few months back. The opening sequence shows a London music shop, with a woman looking at a window display of fretted instruments described as ‘ideal for...
by Christine | Apr 12, 2007 | Welcome Column
When I was twenty-one and enrolled in graduate school at San Jose State University I entered a short story in a writing contest. The short story was called ‘Just About Four Seconds Flat’ and the contest was called the Phalen Competition, which included entrants from...
