by Christine | May 24, 2012 | Welcome Column
Folks, we have close to four weeks until the gathering of the faithful, better known as a Father’s Day bluegrass Festival in grass Valley California. Now is the time to do maintenance on everything that you’re going to take with you for the festival....
by Christine | Apr 28, 2016 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–Okay, we’re still waiting for a NEW Welcome column from the old mountain man; he earned his vacation the hard way…in the hospital…but time is running out. Since Grass Valley is just weeks away, we thought this helpful...
by Christine | Aug 31, 2012 | Welcome Column
A few years ago I got some software and started converting my old LPs into digital files. I was never a fanatical collector, but I’d accumulated something over a thousand since I’d started college. I was serious enough about it to keep them more or less in...
by Christine | Jul 17, 2013 | Welcome Column
Maybe you’ve noticed (or maybe you haven’t noticed) my absence in the past two Wednesdays. I went on a vacation to the UK for a couple of weeks – I assumed I’d be able to post “reports from the road” as it were, but my Chromebook’s charger didn’t play well with my...
by Christine | May 16, 2011 | Welcome Column
It’s sunny here at Whiskey Creek this morning. But it’s not going to last; storm advisory starting this afternoon and going until Wednesday. My friend Ken Reynolds says I should put on my big boy pants and deal with it. I suppose that’s good advice, but I don’t like...
by Christine | May 14, 2015 | Welcome Column
There is a really good book out right now called The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande. Gawande is an American-born medical doctor of East Indian heritage. He started writing for Salon.com some years ago, then was invited to contribute to...
by Christine | Sep 3, 2019 | Welcome Column
Perhaps I am alone, but I suspect there are others who recognize that they spend a great deal of time and energy trying to do something and frequently miss the point of why we are doing it as a result. We try to do something for fun, but we want to be “good” at it. So...
by Christine | Jul 8, 2010 | Welcome Column
There is a really good book out right now called The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande. Gawande is an American-born medical doctor of East Indian heritage. He started writing for Salon.com some years ago, then was invited to contribute to...
by Christine | Jun 21, 2018 | Welcome Column
Looking back over five decades of collecting music recordings I am struck by the fact that, apart from a number of classical music LPs, by far the largest part of my music collection is devoted to bluegrass, old-time, blues, jazz and country music. To some people...
by Christine | Aug 25, 2013 | Welcome Column
Is it the last week of August already? Summer is nearly gone and I don’t have much to show for it. Our youngest daughter and her family moved up from Hanford this summer. I have enjoyed getting to spend more time with the grandkids. They are both in high school and...
