by Christine | Sep 1, 2007 | Welcome Column
Seeing that giant banjo made by Don Timmer and his wife for their wedding ceremony and party a few years back started me thinking about the potential for banjos and just general strangeness. So I’ve done some research. Mayhem in Montgomery Police arrived at the home...
by Christine | Apr 19, 2020 | Welcome Column
Yep…they are at that strange, weird, surreal, and for me a wee claustrophobic. Last month somehow my new puppy got loose and posted a column. I must apologize for that. It has been 16 years since I last had to raise a puppy and I forgot just how disruptive and sneaky...
by Christine | Mar 18, 2012 | Welcome Column
Strange thing this music. It can make us stand up and dance, it can make us cry, make us wistful, happy, joyous, angry, content. Music can calm our emotions, music accompanies us to war and is played to mourn our dead. It’s everywhere we go. It never stops amazing me,...
by Christine | Jun 13, 2020 | Welcome Column
Okay, okay. Since there is no Strawberry Musical Festival (as well as FDF Grass Valley) this year(2020), let’s get in the time machine and take more than a few steps back in time to 1987.It’s 1987, and I’m making my way from the Sonoma Valley to Camp Mather, near...
by Christine | Jan 14, 2011 | Welcome Column
I was watching a YouTube video of Rick Cornish singing “ain’t nobody gonna miss me when I’m gone” at four o’clock in the morning. I’m watching, at four in the morning because I can’t sleep. And I can’t sleep because I’m old and falling apart, or because I have a...
by Christine | May 26, 2017 | Welcome Column
I was watching a YouTube video of Rick Cornish singing “ain’t nobody gonna miss me when I’m gone” at four o’clock in the morning. I’m watching, at four in the morning because I can’t sleep. And I can’t sleep because I’m old and falling apart, or because I have a...
by Christine | Jul 12, 2017 | Welcome Column
I’ve been seeing ads for these doohickies called Fidget Spinners. I’m not clear on what good they are, but they seem to be very popular and some people have become absolute wizards at the darn things. It won’t be long until there’s a movie based upon them, I bet. I...
by Christine | Jun 15, 2020 | Welcome Column
It’s ironic that an album that deals with the quintessential Infamous Stringdusters’ themes of wanderlust and attraction turns out being their coming home party back to the traditional bluegrass fold. Although this album has more bluegrass influence than any other...
by Christine | Jul 15, 2014 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where, if we had sidewalks instead of dirt paths, and if we were in the habit of having ham and eggs for breakfast, and if I had eggs in my fridge instead of on my SavMart shopping list, I could surely fry them on one, sidewalk that...
by Christine | Feb 8, 2018 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where flora and fauna alike are demanding to know where the damned rain is. If this is somebody’s idea of a practical joke, KNOCK IT OFF.I’m re-posting a column I did because there’s been a new development in the...
