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...
by Christine | Feb 7, 2017 | 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...
by Christine | Jul 1, 2014 | Welcome Column
As a child, my playmate and I once put ice cream and mud together and then tried to serve it as pie. We both thought we were creative geniuses but when she gave it to her mother, that combination didn’t go over too well. I once worked for an employer who liked...
by Christine | Nov 30, 2013 | Welcome Column
I was talking to J.D. Rhynes some time back, and mentioned that a couple of my bandmates played in other bands. J.D. said, “that’s the death of a band.” I’ve had reason to think about that as time has past, and as you might expect there’s a certain wisdom in what that...
by Christine | Jun 3, 2013 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, I’m back after a whole month off. Rick was kind of enough to allow me a furlough from Welcoming the welcomees so I could bivouac in my mountain retreat. I’ve been fighting the Battle of the Breakdown June Issue-slash-Father’s Day Event Program. Though...
by Christine | Nov 17, 2014 | Welcome Column
Murder is a subject that will always fascinate people. The evening news never fails to mention the most disturbing murder of the day and if a newspaper web site has an intriguing murder mystery, that article never fails to get a lot of hits. Bluegrass and Old Time...
