by Christine | Jun 22, 2019 | Welcome Column
How many memories do you have of waving good-bye to your loved ones, as they leave to go home or leave for an adventure? I have scores myself and until May, my most memorable good-byes were in airports wishing safe travels and spilling plenty of tears as I say...
by Christine | Oct 14, 2010 | Welcome Column
The fingertips of my left hand are burning as I type this. Banjo players have girlyman calluses compared to guitar players, but I spent the day playing guitar at Isleton yesterday and my digits are not happy campers. The rest of me, however, had a great time. There...
by Christine | Nov 25, 2017 | Welcome Column
“The past beats inside me like a second heart.” ? John Banville, The SeaI had what I would call a “chance meeting” a couple of months with a stranger far-far away from me in life and cultural experience, and yet, we seemed to ride piggy back on each other’s heart and...
by Christine | Nov 26, 2017 | Welcome Column
(EDITOR’S NOTE–Robin’s Welcome yesterday was so hard-hitting that we decided to leave it up another day.)“The past beats inside me like a second heart.” ? John Banville, The SeaI had what I would call a “chance meeting” a couple of months with a...
by Christine | Nov 21, 2007 | Welcome Column
One day last week while pushing my shopping cart through the produce section at SavMart I heard half a cell phone conversation, my end coming from a scruffy, late twenties man pushing his own cart. We were in the leafy greens section. “WHAT? You’re kidding me. Well...
by Christine | Jun 3, 2007 | Welcome Column
This is just about the perfect time of the year for me. For starters, I wasn’t able to learn to read until I was in the third grade, which meant that I was, for all intents and purposes, way behind my classmates from kindergarten through graduate school, which meant...
by Christine | Apr 4, 2013 | Welcome Column
March has been a very hectic month. We just got back from our trip to the tropics to celebrate the spring equinox. The day after the time change, we packed the RV with plenty of tequila and as many musical instruments as we could carry and headed south. We were hoping...
by Christine | Nov 7, 2018 | Welcome Column
The journey from beginning musician to intermediate is tough, but extremely rewarding. Except for those of us who was born to hold and instrument and play music, the start of that journey seems close to impossible. You hold the guitar (or fiddle, or mandolin…) and say...
by Christine | Nov 30, 2019 | Welcome Column
I’ve wanted to compose music ever since I started playing……..ohhh somewhere around the age of 8. (I’ve also wanted to write a novel, but that’s a different story.) Anyway, my original aspiration was to compose classical, symphonic music. When I was younger, after band...
by Christine | Jun 4, 2011 | Welcome Column
So, where’s the CBA web site been since Wednesday night? Well, it’s a long story….and if you’re one of the handful of people responsible for keeping cbaontheweb.org up and running, a gut-wrenching story. First and foremost, we were NOT the victim of a virus attack....
