Review: Castoro Cellars Late Harvest Zinfandel
Our friend Rebecca was back in town after a five-flights-in-three-days sort of business trip that had her on both coasts as well as in Chicago. She was stopping by our […]
Our friend Rebecca was back in town after a five-flights-in-three-days sort of business trip that had her on both coasts as well as in Chicago. She was stopping by our […]
This morning was a rare morning, cool and brisk with only wisps of clouds overhead and the sun lighting up the rolling hillsides in their autumnal yellows as if it […]
I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never been to the Finger Lakes, but I don’t see any graceful way around it that doesn’t involve lying, so, well, there it is: I’ve […]
Lately my wife, Sonja, has been pestering me about getting rid of my old Jeep Wrangler. It isn’t practical, she says, for a family man, what with the two doors, […]
For years now, Sonja and I have enjoyed running a little bed and breakfast in our home. We essentially just advertise our spare room on Air BnB, which we love, […]
I’ve gotten cocky, lately, about my ability to cook. Once I knew my place, understood how very limited I was in both creativity and talent, and as such stuck primarily […]
You know how, once you submit something for publication, you sometimes tend to just forget about it, so that by the time it is released in print format you feel […]
I hadn’t seen my college friend Matt or his wife Maggie since their wedding nearly 18 months ago, so when they called to say they’d be in town from Chicago […]
My memories of John Wobig are mostly of him in a white lab coat, working at the hospital where my mother was a nurse in the small, rural town of Valentine […]
You’ve heard of Chateau Montelena. I pen (type) that line with a high degree of confidence because you’re reading this review on a web page devoted to wine, and if you’re […]