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Sunday, September 27, 2020

A Passage from the Dead Tree Scrolls

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T here’s a wine article sitting on my desktop that is going on four months overdue. It’s almost finished, just needs a little editing. It ...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

I waited for you at the train station, but you never showed up. So, I guess I’ll go to Tuscany without you.

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I t was a long shot, for sure. We had casually talked about meeting in Rome and taking the train to Tuscany. It was over a couple of bottles...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

A letter, found in an abandoned home, next to a stream of unconscious and constant agitation

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[Editor's note: this letter was unsigned inside an envelope on the desk of the empty home. It could be the letter was written by the own...
Sunday, September 06, 2020

Dismantling the First Mountain

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T he life of a career. It’s a curious ascent. One spends so much energy in getting to the top of the mountain. To be the best. Number one....
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Everyone’s gone to the moon (or “We’re here and they’re not”)

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A s we beat the month of August, once more, to death, September howls like a newborn that was cast away into a dumpster. No one hears her...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Italy, a beacon for continuity in the realm of magical thinking

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Y esterday a young friend called me from Italy. Not just anywhere in Italy, but one of my favorite places in Italy – San Benedetto del Tro...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

A most unusual Ferragosto

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E ver since I have been decamping to Italy, almost 50 years now, the middle of August (Ferragosto) signaled a time to recharge, rest, play...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

#TBT - Master Class in Indigenous Wines ~ As Taught by a Donkey, a Rooster and the Spirit of Place

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#TBT - from the archives T here are aspects to life that don’t travel so well on the road. One of them is the lack of interaction with c...
Sunday, August 09, 2020

Taking one's place along the river

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“All we are not stares back at what we are.” - W.H. Auden W hat are we looking for? Whether it is in a vineyard or a desert? In a lover ...
Sunday, August 02, 2020

The valley between the mountains

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" Gone to look for America " T he assistant at the hotel reception desk in Farmington was Navaho. He bore familiar marks of hi...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Looking for another mountain

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"Gone to look for America" D riving through the Texas Panhandle seemed interminable. Speed up, slow down, pass through a littl...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Finding a new Italy while "gone to look for America"

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I t must have been on the last leg of my road trip around America, when I realized the Italy I was missing was passing by me at 75 miles an ...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

Gone Fission....

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Going off the grid for a bit. Nothing's wrong, just need to step away from the world and dip my pole in cooler waters - the rods hav...
Sunday, July 05, 2020

What a Jesuit priest, a Zen monk and a Yaqui shaman taught me about life, wine and Italy

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From the archives “There is a crack between the two worlds.” – Don Juan Matus I n time, the perception of things as they are and as t...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

The love of your life

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W ell, here we are. Some of us are alone. Some of us are riding this out with others, maybe our loved ones, friends, family. It doesn’t lo...