by Christine | Dec 26, 2019 | Welcome Column
This a repost of mine from a year ago. I repost it because of several reasons – because it is certainly my most memorable Christmas; because I like to continue to thank the US Navy crew who picked me up in Hamhung Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1950; and because too many of...
by Christine | Dec 27, 2016 | Welcome Column
In 1952, after I got lucky and married into the Burnett Clan, we did what most young marrieds did – we planned the best Christmas experience we could. When our three children came along, we always made certain that they enjoyed Christmases to remember. However,...
by Christine | Mar 18, 2015 | Welcome Column
Playing music with other people – whether you’re jamming or “officially” performing – it’s a collaboration that creates a whole, greater than the sum of its parts. The most stark example of this is in vocal harmonies. Have you noticed that when a harmony...
by Christine | Apr 5, 2014 | Welcome Column
As some of you guys are aware, I am in my senior year in high school, which means that I have been spending much of the past six months deciding where I will go to college. Late last year was spent researching and deciding which colleges I should apply too along with...
by Christine | Jul 1, 2018 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: Here’s a column from Marty written in 2014. There have been very few Welcome column writers who have so consistently and for so many years supplied this spot with informative, entertaining and utterly accessible essays. Thanks, Marty....
by Christine | Oct 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
It’s going to be a short column today folks. I drove up to Colusa yesterday for the CBA FAll Campout and woke up early to write a short posting. This is my first campout, believe it or not and I wasn’t quite sure what we would discover. Yeah I get to use “we” as in me...
by Christine | Oct 15, 2019 | Welcome Column
What a glorious bluegrass season 2019 has been. As we have for going on fifty years, the big CBA family is headed to Lodi this week to celebrate a great ending and a terrific beginning of non-stop bluegrass. Come for the music, the friends, the food and everything in...
by Christine | Sep 15, 2010 | Welcome Column
These are the sounds that greet me on Monday morning: “Grrrrr” trills the pack of raccoons that surround me as I go to get the morning paper off the driveway, eying me menacingly, snapping their fingers, but they did not attack. They seem to be rehearsing for a...
by Christine | Feb 27, 2011 | Welcome Column
I began my spring cleaning quite a few weeks back. As I was going through the house, room by room, sorting, editing, polishing and dusting, it occurred to me that I have an awful lot of stuff that has no earthly purpose but to sit on the shelf or hang on the wall to...
by Christine | Oct 18, 2009 | Welcome Column
I was planning on going to the Fall campout this year, looking forward to it, waiting for it, anticipating it for the past 5 months. Instead of putting my camping gear in the shed after the Father’s Day Festival last June, I left it in the garage ready to load in the...
