by Christine | Sep 8, 2019 | Welcome Column
He got home pretty late. Everybody was still awake but dinner had already been put away in the refrigerator. “Oh you got a present today,” his wife informed him. One of the perks of being a doc in a rural community was that people gave you things during...
by Christine | Jan 27, 2019 | Welcome Column
It is Saturday, ten o’clock in the morning. I drag my lazy bones off the couch and head out for a geezer walk. Not fast, not strenuous, just something to stretch the cramped muscles and get moving. Anything can happen, or nothing can happen. If I’m lucky, once I get...
by Christine | Sep 3, 2018 | Welcome Column
ALERT – ALERT – ALERT!!!Hello Bluegrassers! Please check your calendars! You have a couple of months to plan for the CBA FALL CAMP OUT.The Fall Camp out – October 15 – 21, 2018! Now, I know you have been busy and will continue to be, but the...
by Christine | Jul 20, 2011 | Welcome Column
Yesterday morning, I was in a business-to-business networking meeting, and talk turned to business communications, or more specifically, the “dumbing down” of modern communications. The youngest man in the room was 39, and there was much moaning and groaning over the...
by Christine | Dec 11, 2015 | Welcome Column
When I was a lad, I never knew what bluegrass music was. All we did was go to church and listen to church music. My daddy was a fundamentalist, holiness, Pentecostal preacher, and he was careful about what he let into the house. The music was sort of longhair....
by Christine | Oct 9, 2013 | Welcome Column
Boy, the current shananigans in ol’ DC are enough to turn anybody off the democratics process, right? Not so fast. It’s time for a annual CBA Board of Directors election, and that means stifling your disgust with the macro-political situation and focusing...
by Christine | Jan 25, 2016 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST…“We grew from a small seed.”–Carl Pagter (Today’s column is a reprint of an article I wrote back in 2006 for Bluegrass Now magazine. With the start of this fresh new year, we also look back at our past so I thought it would be...
by Christine | Feb 4, 2020 | Welcome Column
Lynn and I actually have a manger here at Whiskey Creek. No, we don’t, nor have we ever, had visiting dignitaries stop by the place to deliver precious gifts or sing the praises of He who shall bring peace on earth. But we DO have a mnager, complete...
by Christine | Apr 14, 2013 | Welcome Column
Good morning from Whiskey Creek, where just like it has for the past twelve years since Lynn and I and the dogs moved here, nature is renewing itself in spectacular fashion. All blossoms and greenery and some of the most enjoyable weather we’ll see all year....
by Christine | Sep 29, 2020 | Welcome Column
Fifty-one years ago I knocked on an apartment door on the south side of San Jose, out near Tully Road, an unremarkable act that I did not realize would change my life.I needed to use a telephone to get phone service for the apartment two doors down where my three San...
