by Christine | Dec 9, 2013 | Welcome Column
(Note from the editor: So, where does time go? Seriously, is there some cloud-based vault that each of us, at least once in our life, has dimly suspected…hoped really…was an eternal safe house where every moment of every eon was stored and catalogued and kept in...
by Christine | Dec 18, 2007 | Welcome Column
So this is how it starts: with a simple, deceiving phone call to my wife. I told her I’d be in an afternoon meeting and would be unreachable the rest of the day. I hoped that I sounded convincing. The truth was I had arranged — by email — a secret...
by Christine | Dec 3, 2016 | Welcome Column
(The following text is an excerpt from the book “High Lonesome Below Sea Level: Stories and Faces of Bluegrass Music in the Netherlands” by Loes van Schaijk and Marieke Odekerken. The book can be ordered in the webshop of the Bluegrass Music Museum or the...
by Christine | Feb 5, 2008 | Welcome Column
For reasons that only a psychoanalyst at the top of her game could divine, I awoke this morning thinking about the blue-haired lady who hired my bluegrass band for a gig at the San Mateo Elks Lodge back in 1979. She was the wife of the top Elk guy, the Supreme Bull,...
by Christine | Jan 9, 2020 | Welcome Column
Just popped into CBA Headquarters to purloin a bottle of white out, and it’s a ghost town in here! What the–? Oh, yeah, everyone’s down in Bakersfield for the Great 48! Have fun everyone!
by Christine | Oct 1, 2011 | Welcome Column
Mrs. Slim and I just returned from a vacation in and around Anchorage, Alaska. Those folks have exaggerated some of their biggest selling points, to wit: They claim to have the highest mountain, Mt. McKinley (aka Denali) in the U.S.A., but when you get there they...
