by Christine | Jan 20, 2018 | Welcome Column
(Note: If you enjoy this column, please make your way over to the CBA Message Board and share your thoughts. All of us Welcome Columnists love to hear from you!)She waddled and snuffled right into my life, the biggest puppy I had ever seen, when I had just turned...
by Christine | Sep 2, 2018 | Welcome Column
Nancy Zuniga’s recent column about the whimsical nature of fate and how the fanning of a butterfly’s wing can cause a hurricane in one’s life some years down the road brought to my mind the most momentous “mistake” I ever made. A casual bit of absent-mindedness that...
by Christine | Jul 2, 2011 | Welcome Column
Since my column from last month never saw the light of day due to a website glitch, and since everybody and his brother has already commented on Grass Valley and Susanville, and since it had more than my usual Bluegrass content, I’ve recycled it as follows: As I write...
by Christine | Nov 16, 2016 | Welcome Column
Every year we all face the same tough choices – what gift to buy for the people on your list. Complicating matters is the spectrum of recipients. There are relatives, closed friends, not-so-close friends, acquaintances, everyone else. Well, here’s some good news...
by Christine | Apr 1, 2010 | Welcome Column
As the fresh-faced cub reporter wound his way up the long driveway leading to the palatial home of renowned fiddler Burnell “Beau” Prater, he noted a crew of gardeners busily at work, pruning the lush topiary lining the driveway…carefully sculptured bushes in...
by Christine | Oct 21, 2015 | Welcome Column
For a number of years, I have a noticed a trend in the pace of quantity of gig opportunities around this time of year – things slow down. If I was playing for a living, I’d be scrambling for gigs, signing up students and demanding pay for my weekly column on the...
by Christine | Aug 18, 2020 | Welcome Column
(Editor’s Note–13 years ago, when I received an email from a guy name Robert Schwartz, a stranger and self-identified CBA newcomer, Mr. Schwartz asked me to consider using it for a guest Welcome Column. I began reading it without any hint of where the...
by Christine | Feb 7, 2016 | Welcome Column
Editor’s Note–So, where does time go? Seriously, is there some cloud-based vault that each of us, at least once in our life, has dimly suspected…hoped really…was an eternal safe house where every moment of every eon was stored and catalogued and kept in...
by Christine | Dec 9, 2013 | Welcome Column
(Note from the editor: So, where does time go? Seriously, is there some cloud-based vault that each of us, at least once in our life, has dimly suspected…hoped really…was an eternal safe house where every moment of every eon was stored and catalogued and kept in...
by Christine | Dec 18, 2007 | Welcome Column
So this is how it starts: with a simple, deceiving phone call to my wife. I told her I’d be in an afternoon meeting and would be unreachable the rest of the day. I hoped that I sounded convincing. The truth was I had arranged — by email — a secret...
