by Christine | Aug 1, 2013 | Welcome Column
If you didn’t know, last Thursday July 25 was National Tequila Day and I want to begin this month by thanking all of you who sent me cards and messages celebrating this holiday. This is a big one for me. Heck if I weren’t retired I’d take the day off. One of my...
by Christine | Dec 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
This week, a close friend of mine announced that he was going to have to close his music store in downtown Martinez. He has run the store for about 7 years, and it’s become a treasured part of our downtown. Remember in the Andy Griffith show, where Floyd’s Barber Shop...
by Christine | May 8, 2014 | Welcome Column
Shortly after I retired in 2002 I began taking my mother to lunch three days a week at the C.C. Cafe, the senior lunch program in the little town of Crockett run by the Meals on Wheels Senior Outreach people in Contra Costa County. When I saw how much she enjoyed it,...
by Christine | Oct 11, 2013 | Welcome Column
I was taking a nap on the couch the other day with iTunes playing on the T.V. through the computer, and I’m off in dream land when I hear Bean Creek playing Dixie Darlin’, and one eye half opens and it watches the T.V. as though it’s really watching Pete Hicks playin’...
by Christine | Jul 11, 2014 | Welcome Column
We’re in the middle of festival season. That time of year when the sun shine brightest, the birds sing the loudest and anticipation is at it’s highest level since when you were a kid on the night before Christmas. I look forward to festival season like I used to look...
by Christine | Nov 28, 2013 | Welcome Column
In my 75+ years of life I have been witness to several miracles, buttoday marks a miracle of time that I will never see again, not inthis life on earth. It was pointed out in the news last night, thattoday is the first day that Thanksgiving and Hanukkah have fell...
by Christine | Aug 23, 2014 | Welcome Column
As a child, my playmate and I once put ice cream and mud together and then tried to serve it as pie. We both thought we were creative geniuses but when she gave it to her mother, that combination didn’t go over too well. I once worked for an employer who liked...
by Christine | Mar 13, 2021 | Welcome Column
World Fiddle Day “Fire on the mountain, run boy run, cause the devil went down to Georgia!” “You ain’t gonna bring that devil’s box in this here church!” “Now you people stop moving your feet to that fiddle music, it just ain’t right!” “Fiddle and a bow, and the...
by Christine | Mar 11, 2021 | Welcome Column
The daily grist: Where oh where is pretty little Susie? Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch (traditional) Spring has sprung! And there is no greater delight than watching the trees bloom each spring. Like many others during the COVID era I have been riding my bicycle...
by Christine | Feb 13, 2021 | Uncategorized, Welcome Column
1 – “Hoard your energy” (Bob Dylan). Yes, I agree. Save it for all things bluegrass (festivals, jams, events, thoughts). 2 – The future is unknown, but the past is certain. Learn from your mistakes; Like not attending that bluegrass festival you missed last year, and...
