by Christine | May 3, 2020 | Welcome Column
I spent more than a couple of these 1st Thursdays talking about being retired and what I would be spending my copious free time on. I’ve talked many times about bass playing, rehearsing or practicing, taking lessons, walking with lots of flats, jamming and...
by Christine | May 1, 2014 | Welcome Column
Last month I told you of my motorhome hobby and the commitment of keeping it running and ready. A few of you commented and offered much appreciated advice particularly David Lange’s colorful instructions regarding towing. I leave it to you readers to look it up on the...
by Christine | May 5, 2016 | Welcome Column
Since we last talked I’ve been a very busy camper…literally. Beginning with three days at Walker Creek Music Camp and followed very closely by an eight day trip down the coast to San Diego and back. Anyone driving a motorhome these days must be aware of...
by Christine | Dec 25, 2012 | Welcome Column
When my brother and I were growing up in Lima, Peru, we were surrounded by a kind of music that you hear these days at every big outdoor attraction: those high flutes, the little armadillo-shell stringed instruments, the big booming bass drum. This was before Paul...
by Christine | Nov 6, 2016 | Welcome Column
Time to FALL BACK. Oh yes, it’s that time again to set our clocks back an hour. We will now be back in Standard Time. Be aware, if you don’t. You’ll be the only one sitting out in the parking lot waiting an hour for everybody else to show up and unlock the door on...
by Christine | Apr 8, 2015 | Welcome Column
Listening to spring training baseball on the radio, and eagerly welcoming opening for this season, I am struck once again by the intricate connections between bluegrass and baseball. This time, it was the pace and attitude I noticed. Baseball, unlike most sports, has...
by Christine | May 22, 2019 | Welcome Column
I admit this is a re-print, but I felt this was timely..Listening to spring training baseball on the radio, and eagerly welcoming opening for this season, I am struck once again by the intricate connections between bluegrass and baseball. This time, it was the...
by Christine | Feb 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where late last week we were formally introduced to our neighbor, Mr. Skunk. It was actually Willie who spotted her, chased and cornered her, and was about to crush her neck with his massive jaws or get sprayed by his would-be victim,...
by Christine | Aug 24, 2017 | Welcome Column
August 19, of 2017 I had occasion to travel to South Lake Tahoe to visit my stepson Cole’s Memorial, a ritual that I have followed for the last 15 years since his untimely demise on August 18 of 2002. He was killed in a motorcycle accident on that day which in...
by Christine | Nov 10, 2012 | Welcome Column
They were hippies. Admittedly they were. But this was then, and now is now, and as they embraced the now they weren’t sure if they were hippies or not. Tom, his wife, and three children made up the Sawyer family. The Sawyers had waited until later in their life to...
