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...
by Christine | Apr 26, 2007 | Welcome Column
The story of the Sages and how they came to be strumming starts, at least for me, in November of 2000. That was the year my band, the Grass Menagerie, first played the Woodland Veterans Day Festival. And it would also be the last time my son Phillip, who’d been...
by Christine | Oct 3, 2019 | Welcome Column
I’m involved with three different jam groups with little or no overlap in players. Monday and Thursday night, each different and Tuesday and Thursday lunch time being the other group. Maybe it’s me but all these groups seem to be slowing tempos down and it is driving...
by Christine | Oct 22, 2013 | Welcome Column
Good Tuesday morning from Whiskey Creek, where the summer deck furniture has been carefully stowed away in the barn, the old Argosy camp trailer is drifting off into its deep, hibernatory sleep, where all dogs and all llamas have begun in earnest to grow back their...
by Christine | Sep 29, 2013 | Welcome Column
As luck would have it, I had the following piece already written about a week ago and then by chance, I was reminded the very next day of just how ubiquitous the topic it discusses truly is. You see, I needed to find a way for my daughter Juliet to go to the Plymouth...
