by Christine | Oct 29, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where entropy, the third law of thermodynamics, which describes the steady, unrelenting creep of all systems in nature from order to disorder and, ultimately, chaos, is the unchallenged ruler of all it surveys. The light fixture in our...
by Christine | Jun 19, 2012 | Welcome Column
I’m tired of hearing people say, “It’s all about the music.” That phrase, meant to excuse bluegrass music for the often static, not to say boring, way in which many performances of bluegrass music present themselves just doesn’t hold water. In order...
by Christine | Aug 28, 2017 | Welcome Column
Good morning. I’m repeating this column from 2010 because, if anything, the irresistible force of entropy has gotten even stronger since then. In the past couple of weeks, things around Whiskey Creek that I didn’t even know were working have...
by Christine | Aug 13, 2016 | Welcome Column
If you’re like me, you look forward to the second Sunday of each month because that one of Bert Daniel’s Welcome column days–yes, he’s one of only two of our writers that does TWO columns per month. Well, Bert’s indisposed today so...
by Christine | May 31, 2017 | Welcome Column
Before addressing the topic I’ve chosen for today, a brief update on Sarafina, our llama who I reported last week in my Welcome column was ill. She’d started losing her appetite a month ago and for the past couple weeks had stopped eating altogether. On Friday I...
by Christine | Aug 2, 2010 | Welcome Column
Before addressing the topic I’ve chosen for today, a brief update on Sarafina, our llama who I reported last week in my Welcome column was ill. She’d started losing her appetite a month ago and for the past couple weeks had stopped eating altogether. On Friday I...
by Christine | Mar 17, 2008 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Happy St. Patrick’s Day, grassers. Why we should celebrate anyone who was so anti-reptile is beyond me, but hey, any excuse for a party. Stay away from green beer and don’t drink and drive, please. Hopefully everyone got a sample of the innumerable...
by Christine | Oct 13, 2010 | Welcome Column
Thanks to the colorful nature of bluegrass lyrics, I can learn much of what I need to know just by listening to the songs. I know the skies in Ol’ Kentucky are “so blue” – which I have verified since first hearing it. I have learned that you may be able to find a...
by Christine | Jun 4, 2009 | Welcome Column
“The young become the old And mysteries do unfold For that’s the way of time No one and nothing goes unchanged.” ~from “Everything Must Change” by Bernard Ighner Although I had been attending bluegrass concerts and festivals sporadically for five years, I...
by Christine | Jul 4, 2009 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Nancy Zuniga Thursday, June 4, 2009 “The young become the old And mysteries do unfold For that’s the way of time No one and nothing goes unchanged.” ~from “Everything Must Change” by Bernard Ighner Although I had been attending...
