by Christine | Jan 5, 2015 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where it is 3:15 a.m. and I am sitting in front of my computer updating the web site of the California Bluegrass Association as I have done for just shy seven months of fifteen years. What’s different about this particular morning,...
by Christine | Jan 1, 2019 | Welcome Column
I don’t think it matters much which side of the political divide you’re on, 2018 has been a very difficult year for we Americans, one that I think many of us bid a fond farewell to. Here’s hoping that during our next jaunt around the sun each and...
by Christine | Dec 4, 2010 | Welcome Column
(Web Team Note: Some may have noticed yesterday that we did not get Brooks Judd’s Welcome column up on the web site until the middle of the afternoon. This was a serious breach of our cbaontheweb.org protocol and the perpetrator has been severely disciplined. ( I sent...
by Christine | Jan 1, 2020 | Welcome Column
This is my first Welcome Column of 2020 – Happy new year!. Traditionally, I should say something important, pithy and clever about the milestone. But what pops into my head to say (my 61-year-old-head) is different than what my pop into your head, especially if...
by Christine | Dec 31, 2014 | Welcome Column
Three great things about 2014: I got to be the Welcome Columnist for the day before Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s! Our notion of when a year begins or ends is arbitrary, of course. There’s nothing global or astronomically significant about...
by Christine | Nov 29, 2019 | Welcome Column
There’s much I like about my volunteer jobs for the CBA; probably my single favorite derives from my web master’s job, since each holiday I get to write a greeting from the California Bluegrass Association to, well, the entire world. A big responsibility...
by Christine | Mar 24, 2013 | Welcome Column
“When the springtime comes on the mountain, and the wildflowers scatter o’er the plains, I will watch for the leaves to return to the trees, and I’ll be waiting when the springtime comes again.” Last summer and fall I did some landscaping in our backyard. Everything...
by Christine | Dec 1, 2013 | Welcome Column
9-1. That was the score Friday afternoon as the Cuzzies beat the Ol’ Aunties and Uncles at our post Thanksgiving whiffle ball game at the park. We had 23 family members over for dinner Thanksgiving Day. I had never cooked for that many before. After two turkeys, a...
by Christine | Jan 13, 2013 | Welcome Column
The words “Hard Times” appeared the other day in our local newspaper as a crossword puzzle entry. That got me thinking about our recent hard economic times and it got me wondering about whether or not this new year would finally bring an end to them. Since...
by Christine | Jun 27, 2014 | Welcome Column
Welcome and howdy to you travelers out on Harmony Road. Wasn’t Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival at Grass Valley FUN? How did you like the new stage lighting panels? In the daylight I wasn’t sure I liked those gauzy panels but at night they were really amazing and so...
