Yesterday was spent bouncing from place to place to place, and revisiting a lot of memories. I went to Alpha Omega, where I first met my friend Jean, and to […]

“Since you’re here, maybe you can help me out,” said my host, and without further explanation lead me down the steps from his office and around the corner to his […]

I met Mike Farmer a few years ago at the recommendation of another wine writing friend. I had asked this friend, challenged her rather, to point me to a truly […]

A statue outside of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, founded by Warren Winiarski, whose 1973 Stag’s Leap S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon won the 1976 Judgement of Paris. In the background above the […]

When I teach my students to write personal narratives, I discourage elongated stories about day or even week-long experiences that turn into lists of things one might have done, rather […]

Half an hour ago, I was awoken by Titus crying over the baby monitor. Normally a pretty terrific sleeper, he was audibly disturbed. He was asking for momma, but Sonja […]

Sonja and I have been running the Hospital Hill race in Kansas City together for a long time. The first time we did it together, she was pregnant with Titus, […]