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...
by Christine | May 30, 2011 | Welcome Column
They sneak up on me. The old brain does a pretty decent job remembering when it’s my turn to write a Welcome so I have a little time to mull over content and delivery, but when these months with fifth days roll around, all bets are off. Since I really haven’t spent...
by Christine | Aug 31, 2017 | Welcome Column
Megan B. Lynch – FiddleStar Camps and PublishingIf you didn’t know Sunshine McClenahan, I’m not entirely sure how to begin to describe her, and therefore to express what the world has just lost. I met her and her husband Lou when I was a little kid...
by Christine | Jan 30, 2012 | Welcome Column
Good Monday morning from Whiskey Creek, where the birds chirp much louder than any other place in the tri-county area, where there’s 1.7 dogs per single family dwelling in our little rural neighborhood, all barkers, where not one single big-rig lumber hauler has...
by Christine | Sep 28, 2020 | Welcome Column
THE DAILY GRIST…”Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”-Plato app – noun; an application; a typically small, specialized program...
by Christine | Apr 1, 2014 | Welcome Column
We kick off the spring season with an event in Cloverdale that Board Member Mark Hogan is involved with as part of his Sonoma County Area Activities position. This is year number 39 for the Cloverdale Fiddle Festival but the first to be held April 5th. We can kick off...
by Christine | Apr 4, 2016 | Welcome Column
I am late again getting my April President’s Message to editor Mark Varner and am going to insert instead a review I wrote about our first ever CBA Youth Program fundraising concert held February 26th in Alameda CA. We made a couple hundred dollars...
