O ver the past month, as my personal fog has lifted, there have been dreams. And in these dreams, many of them have had family who are no ...

The vault of memory stores more than kisses, licks, slaps, bites and stings. A long-time colleague of mine obsesses over Vernaccia from...

From the "Hello, is it me you're looking for?" dept. N o one looked, no one asked, when Sangiovese frolicked in the hills ...

“One riot, one ranger” L ooking out the window on an early morning in March, leaves are falling from the trees. Spring is pushing the la...

I nside the glass, this hurdling liquid, rushing into all the empty crevices, seeming to fulfill a need to order the world around us as ex...

“W e’re going to hit you with a low dose of morphine, to help you sleep.” Was I dreaming? After a day which saw no sleep, a hurried drive ...

Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar? Hard to imagine, but it is. 15 years since Lizanne took her leave. ...

I ’ve spent the first part of this year tasting numerous types of Italian wine. More than I can remember in a long time. And while that is p...

V erona in January can be severe. Or it can be a welcome change from the early spring, when Vinitaly wine fair-goers clog every artery, f...

W e live in multi-planar worlds. There is wine. And there is food. Just as there is work. And there is avocation. And while it seems we li...

T he owl was singing outside my room, at midnight. Fog shrouded the mountain. My hotel had turned off the internet connection. And I could...

W hen I talk to many Italians they like to carp about how unfair life is in Italy. Long lines, lots of bureaucracy, low pay, traffic, corr...

“I s this your first trip to Puglia?” I was asked this past week. “No, I have been here a handful of times,” I answered. “In fact the very f...

L ooking back is so much easier than this. But the past is dust. So where are we going? All I have are some educated guesses. Maybe not pr...

S omewhere in time I read "one who seriously endeavors in an activity really has nothing to say for the first ten years". It’s a...