I talian wine often arrives in a van loaded with emotion. Call me moonstruck from day one. As an observer over the years, there’s somethin...

Echoes from the archives - Posted Nov 24, 2011 1) Thank you for the wonderful variety of your sparkling wines, especially the ones from L...

Echoes from the archives - Posted May 20, 2012 T hat was the question I posed on a Facebook months ago. I have been thinking about it ...

O ver the lifespan of this blog, I’ve written a post, on average, once every three days. For those who aren't familiar, they’ve develo...

W e are now officially in the post-ferragosto dog days of summer. The kind of days where, if you walk outside to get the paper or the mail...

“Start as a dishwasher. Become a salesman. Exit as an accountant. Sunset as ambassador. QED” – Joseph Spellman, M.S. I read the quote a...

Festina Lente S teadfast upon this sweltering little orb in the universe, moving at 1,000 miles per hour, rotating around a sun at 67,000...

Ex ante W alking along a hiking path, on the edge of the continent and from the neighboring country to the south, the longtimer came upo...

T here’s a bit of the old Zen when walking among the ancient living ones on our continent in the Pacific Northwest. One is that we humans,...

Going off the grid for a week. Nothing's wrong, just need to step away from the world and dip my pole in cooler waters - the rods ha...

A mericans still want to go to Italy – in fact more of them are going than ever before. And so I have been getting more than my share of q...

Un po' pasquinata, per piacere God, Guns and BBQ - That's what makes America Great! T he lawn chairs are gathered, the Roman c...

F or those whose families emigrated from Italy over 100 years ago, it is a secure bet that we still identify with our roots. In the U.S., ...

H ow is it a trait that a place is known for, even famous, shuns the quality in favor of fashion? It happens all the time - take a walk th...

What a difference 14,520 days makes I t seems to be unimaginable for someone young today to digest a span of time like 40 years. And whe...