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...
by Christine | Jun 24, 2010 | Welcome Column
It’s been just about a week since the Father’s Day Festival and by now I hope that most of you have unpacked your car, washed the clothes, cleaned out the coolers, and wiped the dust off of your instruments. If that’s the case, you’re better off than I am as I still...
by Christine | Jul 12, 2008 | Welcome Column
“We got cotton, silk and satin / In styles Anglo, Dutch and Latin / When you sail don’t take that chance / Wearing nothing beneath your pants / Trust… Silver’s Long Johns! *They breathe!*” Whoops, I didn’t see you there! You caught me singing a...
