by Christine | Nov 2, 2017 | Welcome Column
My birthday is next Tuesday and besides completing another revolution around the sun, I’ll tell you what it means. I’ll stop getting so many phone calls asking for money for any election that is being held anywhere in the country on that day. It’s good that some of...
by Christine | Nov 19, 2015 | Welcome Column
I came across an article the other day that really hit home and made me think about some feelings I have been experiencing over the last couple of months. It’s called “The 9 Phases of Post-Concert Depression” by Cassie Whitt and was posted on the Alternative Press...
by Christine | Jan 8, 2017 | Welcome Column
Today is a special day and a day to play a special tune. I first remember hearing this tune as part of a popular recording made in the late fifties by Johhny Horton:In 1814 we took a little trip along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty MississippiWe took a little...
by Christine | Sep 24, 2020 | Welcome Column
Daily grist; no matter how slowly the wheels turn I refused to be ground down, and eventually will die a complete person. JD RhynesA memory from 70 years ago still haunts me. The setting was the middle-class neighborhood of East Stockton in which I was raised. It was...
by Christine | Jan 12, 2012 | Welcome Column
For various and sundry reasons I had not previously attended a Great 48 Winter Jam before. But this past summer was notable for a combination of babysitting responsibilities and conflicting band gigs and other commitments, which meant I missed Plymouth and Hollister...
by Christine | Mar 20, 2011 | Welcome Column
If you google “A Beautiful Life” a pretty diverse list of websites falls out, including a site for cosmetics and several hits for a movie directed by Alejandro Chomski…but not the gospel song done by Bill Monroe. For that you have to include an additional term like...
by Christine | Nov 1, 2009 | Welcome Column
“Hello! Anybody home?” Of course, nobody was home this time in the afternoon. It was my sophomore year in college and I was dropping by my parents’ place hoping to snag the Sunday dinner leftovers before anybody came home. Something, however, felt out of place. The...
by Christine | Nov 2, 2014 | Welcome Column
There’s two things that all 13 to 14 year olds really enjoy: hearing horror stories and telling horror stories. A few weeks ago, we read Poe’s “Tell Tale Heart” in class. Naturally class participation and test scores just leaped through the ceiling for this unit of...
by Christine | Dec 11, 2008 | Welcome Column
In the little town of Crockett along the Carquinez Strait, where I grew up, bicycles were a big deal. Even though the town is mostly hills, and very steep ones, everybody had a bicycle. But not me. I’m guessing I was about ten years old when I started seriously...
by Christine | Oct 3, 2015 | Welcome Column
After having heard nothing but raving reviews about it for 10 years, I finally made it to my first edition of IBMA World of Bluegrass! What an overwhelming experience. It might have been a bit naive to make the very first trip all by myself, because it’s a big...
