by Christine | Jun 27, 2018 | Welcome Column
What do our senses do for us? Simply put, they detect changes and report them to us. It’s vital for survival – a glimpse of a threat, the sound of pending danger, the smell of smoke, or a sudden increase or decrease in temperature. Happily, the same senses...
by Christine | Jan 20, 2014 | Welcome Column
Today’s national holiday is a very special day with an anniversary twist this year. Some of us baby boomers can look back fifty years to a time when Martin Luther King, Jr. was in his heyday. This past summer we remembered the March on Washington and King’s famous “I...
by Christine | Jan 6, 2014 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, Happy New Year to you and your kin. Thanks for joining us on the CBA’s glorious website. I hope 2014 will find each and every one of you who appreciates this major feat of bluegrass/old time celebration and communication giving credit to the poobah of...
by Christine | Oct 23, 2012 | Welcome Column
In the beginning…way, way back…we created a feature at the bottom of the right hand column of the cbaontheweb.org splash page called “Band News”. Though that name stuck for at least a couple of years, it quickly became clear that the term ‘band news’ was not broad...
by Christine | Aug 7, 2008 | Welcome Column
I had watched, for the umpteenth time, a dreadful commercial that is being shown on TV ad nauseam, when I got to thinking about the way in which memory is often tied to that which is off-kilter, offensive, or just plain wrong. I consider the ad in question to be the...
by Christine | Apr 29, 2017 | Welcome Column
I had watched, for the umpteenth time, a dreadful commercial that is being shown on TV ad nauseam, when I got to thinking about the way in which memory is often tied to that which is off-kilter, offensive, or just plain wrong. I consider the ad in question to be the...
by Christine | Sep 5, 2013 | Welcome Column
Tin ears, autumn equinox, Oktoberfest and writer’s block Starting with the latter, some months I find it very difficult to come up with a hook or topic for my monthly column. I can usually write something fairly easily to amuse myself but I take the responsibility of...
by Christine | Jul 12, 2009 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Cliff Compton Sunday, July 12, 2009 Mona made me a cake. From scratch. In the oven of her R.V. enough chocolate to send a womans endorphins into a dream state. Enough chocolate to make a bitter man sweet. Just because it was my birthday and...
by Christine | Sep 15, 2008 | Welcome Column
Hey, folks. Happy Monday! I’m cramming like a college student this week, trying to fin enough hours in the day to release your Bluegrass Breakdown paper to the printer before I go to Plymouth. (Looks like we’re getting up there on Thursday, so “someone” please save...
by Christine | Dec 28, 2009 | Welcome Column
I’ve been chewing on this since October, trying to decide if I should write about it, and if so, how I should write about it. My son Peter, my youngest and the one who’s served as a sounding board for me since he learned to talk…..and listen…..helped me decide. Let me...
