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...
by Christine | Dec 14, 2016 | Welcome Column
If you hang around musicians, and get to know them as people, you have to marvel at the wide variety of backgrounds, lifestyles, proclivities and stories. Are they more varied than non-musicians? No, I don’t think so – people are inherently interesting and...
by Christine | Aug 31, 2010 | Welcome Column
Another beautiful day in California’s Mother Lode, where gold was king one hundred and fifty years ago, where picturesque little mining towns all along Highway Forty-Nine once provisioned an army of men in desperate search of that one big strike, and where today...
