by Christine | Oct 27, 2013 | Welcome Column
Another Fall Camp-Out has come and gone. Not wanting to miss out on one bit of fun, we went to Lodi on Monday and stayed until Sunday. I like the new location, and the weather could not have been better. Several of our friends also arrived on Monday so we circled up...
by Christine | Feb 5, 2019 | Welcome Column
An old sergeant I knew in the Army of long ago would often tell us underlings, “There are three ways to do something: The right way, the wrong way and the ARMY way. For me, there is always the POET’S way!(That same sergeant could freeze a charging elephant with...
by Christine | May 3, 2013 | Welcome Column
Thought for the day: I’ve been reading a book about Anti-Gravity and I can’t put it down. Item 1: Annual Spring Camp Out in Turlock. I set my old fashioned alarm clock to 5 a.m. so I could get an early start, beat the traffic and make the long drive to the...
by Christine | Sep 26, 2015 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST…”We can communicate with the man on the moon but sometimes it seems as if we can’t get through an inch of skull” – Anonymous Radio AnnouncerOne of my radio friends was having an unusually and incredibly tough...
by Christine | May 14, 2017 | Welcome Column
Father’s day welcome columnists often write about the column that nobody reads (because we’re all at the Grass Valley Festival). Mother’s Day might be the column that almost nobody reads because you’re all off to the great annual festival in...
by Christine | Jan 14, 2008 | Welcome Column
Happy belated New Year! It’s my belief that you can make this comment until about the 15th of January without being too weird. And so, it’s my fervent wish that this year brings everyone only the best that life has to offer. That said, just what is the best that life...
by Christine | Oct 19, 2014 | Welcome Column
Good morning. Barely. Third Sunday’s belong to Geoff Sargent, but Geoff gave his slot this month to Lucy Smith in order that she might use the space to report on the CBA’s IBMA involvement this year, Lucy being the Czarina of that activity, but the dear woman wasn’t...
by Christine | Oct 7, 2015 | Welcome Column
I watched with some jealousy the dispatches from our contingent at this year’s IBMA event. I remember when I was on the Board, there was some controversy over whether having a CBA presence at IBMA was a worthwhile use of CBA’s time and money. I was always amazed by...
by Christine | Jan 15, 2018 | Welcome Column
The third Monday of the month is normally Bert Daniel’s day to write Welcome to our web site visitors, but he requested and was granted the day off. Bert’s a physician and a very busy guy. While I’m no doc, and, to be honest, not especially busy, I...
by Christine | Nov 23, 2014 | Welcome Column
One of my favorite albums on my iPod is one done by John Prine and Mac Wiseman. They do a song titled, “Don’t be ashamed of your age.” The jist of the song is, as you look back on your life, be satisfied that you have lived it to the fullest, that in the “old book of...
