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,...
by Christine | Jun 6, 2020 | Welcome Column
My wife, who has a sly and mischievous sense of humor, blurted out one day, “I’m too old to be a new talent!” She said that, although she had already achieved much acclaim as an actor, teacher (Monterey Peninsula College) playwright and critic.And we all know of...
by Christine | Sep 4, 2019 | Welcome Column
I’ve said many times, one of the things that bluegrass and baseball have in common is, they’re both fun to argue about. Bill Monroe or Jimmy Martin? Mickey Mantle or Joe DiMaggio? One of life’s little pleasures is arguing back and forth the points that make either...
by Christine | Feb 21, 2016 | Welcome Column
There’s this idea floating around that it takes about 10,000 hours of practicing something to become an expert. I’m not sure I agree with that but my own take on getting good at something is that you need to be more than a little obsessive about practice. ...
