Despite quite a few years of formally studying wine, chronicled in this blog as well as in other places, the answer to the above question eluded me for some time. […]

Yesterday began with the most intense workout of 2020, possibly of my life. I lifted for around forty-five minutes, ran a few miles, lifted a little more, then did back-to-back […]

I’m a fairly firm believer in the idea that you should pair wine with food you like, pair food with wine you like, and not worry much about the “rules” […]

“The Roads from Adare to Kilkenny”   You arrived yesterday, from Boston or New York, and you strode right on up to the counter, then you signed on the line […]

For a while now, I’ve fantasized about writing a cook book. To that end, let’s be honest: I can barely keep up with a blog and I haven’t published a […]

By B8 yesterday, the snow was coming down in gusty flurries as, safe inside the school, my students and I watched Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 adaptation of Hamlet. “The funeral baked […]

525,600 minutes, right? It’s incredible to look back over a year and see how much has changed. Why, in just the last 2,880 minutes we’ve provoked Iran to war and, […]

Happy New Year, friends! Sonja and I hope that, no matter where you are or whether or not you managed to stay up until midnight last night, you’re enjoying the […]