by Christine | Sep 6, 2009 | Welcome Column
Charlie, my cousin, and I had just finished a good morning of frogging. Our buckets were full of the large green, twitching amphibians just waiting to be delegged and eaten for dinner. We had ridden our bicycles for, what seemed to our eleven year old legs, a marathon...
by Christine | Feb 3, 2013 | Welcome Column
This last year has been roller coaster of highs and lows for our nation. Mass shootings. The job market slowly creeping upwards. Choking droughts and crushing ice storms. Troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. High ranking generals embroiled in scandal. In the turmoil of...
by Christine | Jan 2, 2011 | Welcome Column
“I’m gonna lean on the counter and let the glass ring. More brandy. More brandy. More brandy to bring” Those lyrics seem like they might have been sung by rowdy, lederhosen wearing Germans in a 19th century Bavarian beer hall. In fact, they’re from an old American...
by Christine | Feb 28, 2008 | Welcome Column
The other day, I was reposing on my favorite resting place, in my shop, next to a good hot wood stove, listening to the rain on the roof. When the weather is cold and stormy here on my mountain, I always seem to gravitate to the small couch by the stove, and before I...
by Christine | Aug 8, 2020 | Welcome Column
“The biggest surprise in a man’s life is old age.” That’s what my neighbor Freddy Tolstoy said when he had finished a song on his old 1937 Martin D-28 guitar at a jam awhile back. Of course he was quoting Leo Tolstoy (no relation to Freddy), the revered Russian writer...
by Christine | Nov 3, 2010 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—Bruce Campbell wrote in to CBAWEB Central this morning to say he needed to hit the sack, (don’t know whether it was Giants celebrating or election even monitoring), and wouldn’t deliver his regular Wedsnesday column. He asked if we could dig into the...
by Christine | Jan 19, 2018 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note: And then there was the time eight years ago when some folks thought yours truly was attempting to do a little revisionist history on the life of old Joe Stalin. The photo I used in the add about becoming a CBA member was eventually id’d as...
by Christine | Jul 29, 2009 | Welcome Column
Today’s column from Bruce Campbell Wednesday, July 29, 2009 This past week was marked by a extraordinary confluence of events, a harmonic convergence of massive proportions. It was something I had hoped would happen sometime in my lifetime, but never dared dream...
by Christine | Mar 7, 2020 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note—Those who look forward each month to the old Mountain Man’s tales here at the Welcome column were disappointed yesterday when they discovered that JD had a pinch hitter…thanks Yvonne for a great piece. Since Mr. Rhynes never, ever, ever misses his...
by Christine | Dec 3, 2012 | Welcome Column
Dear friends, The upcoming CBA board of directors meeting marks the end of the 2012 session of the Talent Advisory Group. As you probably know, the CBA leadership created this three member committee to research and advise them on the main stage line up for the...
