by Christine | Jul 4, 2019 | Welcome Column
(Today I’m posting a reprint as I’m traveling back to my family home. My number one reader and fan, my 92 year old Mother passed this week and I’m headed to her funeral. She told me she liked this column but of course she said that every month.) Last week on Thursday...
by Christine | Mar 7, 2018 | Welcome Column
Sometimes, playing a band, you have a gig where everything seems to be going right with the band. All the stuff you worked on is going just as planned, the vocals are crisp and the solos are sparkling. It feels great – but then you look at the audience, and they...
by Christine | Nov 27, 2020 | Welcome Column
Last week on Thursday there was a news item on the CBA splash page regarding the concept of gigs potentially extending your life. As a wanna be gig playing bass player, I took a second (and third look) at this article. I was hoping for a Ponce de Leon moment and an...
by Christine | Mar 26, 2019 | Welcome Column
This is off the subject perhaps, but it has a purpose. Has anyone ever pulled this on you? Have you ever been handed a sentence, a paragraph or a poem – by Emily Dickinson, perhaps, and asked to do something to prove a point? Let’s take as an...
by Christine | Jul 30, 2010 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek. There’s a sense of relief here at the old homestead. For close to a month we’ve been dealing with a llama who just pretty much stopped eating. Lynn’s tried everything. Sarahfina has been on four different medications, we’ve had two...
by Christine | Aug 2, 2018 | Welcome Column
NOTE! Before we get to Dave’s column, a bit of news: Our esteemed webmaster is without a computer since his has broken down. We expect Rick Cornish, Webmaster, to be up and running on Friday. Thanks for your patience.I’ve been working lately with some very old...
by Christine | Mar 16, 2020 | Welcome Column
The Daily Grist: “These are the times that try mens souls.” (Thomas Paine)I write to you today from my bubble in Healdsburg and I hope you are safe in your own bubble, wherever that might be. I don’t know about you but I’m going crazy. Geoff Sargeant’s welcome column...
by Christine | Jun 7, 2009 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, This is a busy time of year around here at Breakdown Towers. We no sooner got the June issue of the CBA’s monthly paper done when we had to begin on the July issue. I plan on being in the Elysian Fields of the Nevada County Fairgrounds on the Saturday...
by Christine | Oct 23, 2010 | Welcome Column
I’ve been thinking a lot about candy lately, more than I have in the last 11 months. I mean really, how can I not? I was at Wal-Mart this afternoon, and while hiking back and forth between the “food” section and the “other” section each time I remembered something I...
by Christine | Feb 28, 2015 | Welcome Column
I’ve been thinking a lot about candy lately, more than I have in the last 11 months. I mean really, how can I not? I was at Wal-Mart this afternoon, and while hiking back and forth between the “food” section and the “other” section each time I remembered something I...
