I f only this blog were a young girl who was turning into a woman. It would surely be more apt for these times. But a quinceañera it is not ...

  “W ell, this sure has been one doozie of a year.” How many times, at year's end, have you murmured that to yourself, over the past doz...

♫ It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ♫ W hen one is marooned on an island, you have a lot of time to think and imagine all ...

I remember as a kid, going to a birthday party. I was living in the desert of Southern California, Palm Springs. And the parents of the bir...

F or some, this is a way with a deep-seated furrow. The road often taken. The commonplace. The not-so-out-of-the-ordinary. But predictable? ...

O n July 18, 2016, an intergalactic dust storm - Mendacium Collocatio – plowed into earth, broadsiding North America. It modified the bra...

It’s been an incredible journey   B y now, you’re pretty sick of staring at the screens. The Zoom calls, the virtual wine dinners, the Ins...

W hen I first starting out buying wine to collect, it was slow going. I’d recently moved to a new state and town, was a single dad with cust...

H ow does one go from experiencing the great wines of the world, on a regular basis, for decades, to a world now so quiet and tranquil tha...

I n Italy, there is a most amazing fellow. He is 93 years old, and from the age of 18, his sole goal and activity has been to visit every ...

A playful spoof on a popular post and series , meant only for fun T his is, without a doubt, going to be one of the most important and...

I n my dotage, I’ve become a bit of a numbers guy. How many bottles of wine in my cellar? What time remains of summer? Days left until the e...

(photo, courtesy of the Illuminati winery) T his whole cycle of life thing here on earth, it’s a peculiar one. It goes slow, then it speed...

L ately, I’ve been creating spreadsheets. Lists of things I’ve done or collected. Like food in the freezer. Trips to Italy. Master photo-f...

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 ...