by Christine | Jan 24, 2020 | Welcome Column
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the man who writes about all people and about all time.”- George Bernard ShawI’m not sure that my three kids and five grandkids understand my love for Deep-South foods and customs, and I know for a fact that they...
by Christine | Sep 22, 2017 | Welcome Column
Daily grist; it has been said that there is more to life than bluegrass music. Really? Who cares? JD Rhynes This story starts back when I was a teenager in Stockton California about 1954 when I got my first car, a 1936...
by Christine | Aug 23, 2012 | Welcome Column
A couple of weeks ago I was asked on the message board how I came to know Vern and Ray which gave me the idea to use the subject for a welcome message. So here we go; Way back in the late 1940s there was a disc jockey in Stockton, California by the name of Dusty...
by Christine | May 24, 2018 | Welcome Column
Daily Grist; a man can count the number of seeds inside an Apple when he cuts it open. Only God knows the amount of apples that one seed will produce. JDRhynesWe have all heard the old saying that truth is stranger than fiction. Well, this is a true story and it...
by Christine | Dec 4, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good Tuesday morning from Whiskey Creek, where our namesake water feature quite nearly overflowed its banks after four pretty intense days of rain over this past weekend. Not really any danger since there’s a secondary bank twenty feet up from the first created God...
by Christine | Aug 4, 2014 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: I’d have to say that of all our Welcome columnists, one of the handful just seem never, ever to beg off a month is Mark Varner. Pretty amazing when you consider that the guy has a full time job producing copy and images on a deadline and a part-time...
by Christine | Jul 20, 2009 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, This was going to a column about how I was going to be in a movie. Yes, a real feature length film. Instead it’s a column about how I am NOT going to be in a movie. A few months ago a friend and I signed up on a website to be extras in a movie that was...
by Christine | Dec 28, 2013 | Welcome Column
So your band is going into the studio to record their very first CD. You’re excited, you’ve planned and prepared and saved and re-planned and saved some more. You’re going to play more than one instrument. You’re going to sing lead on some...
by Christine | Aug 31, 2005 | Welcome Column
Like most people, I only have two hands. Like a lot of other musicians, I play several instruments. So the short answer the above question is a simple formula of (Instruments I can play) X (Pairs of hands). But wait! I like to play both electric guitar AND acoustic...
by Christine | Apr 29, 2014 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where our retired lives speed by with the velocity of a bullet train. It’s a bit ironic, to me at least, that as Lynn and I grow older, slow down commensurately and become more deliberate and pondering about the daily choices we make,...
