Yesterday, my runners did a recovery run from the meet the day before on their own. With no practice to get to, I took the opportunity to revert to my […]

There’s no such thing as a typical day anymore. “Typical” has lost all meaning and our days, in turn, are whatever they shape up to be, whatever we manage to […]

Yesterday morning, I woke up in a guest house overlooking the Vacas, sat on the front porch, and enjoyed a cup of coffee: Twelve hours later, I had returned to […]

I thought of several different ways that I could start this blog post. Here are three of them: It was relayed to me today that someone had told their significant […]

Regular readers have oft witnessed my bemoaning of those who claim to “hate” Merlot. Merlot is a varietal, and one that good winemakers worldwide to myriad things with, rendering each […]

This weekend, Sonja, Titus, Zooey and I were in Kansas City for our annual trip to the Hospital Hill race (read more on yesterday’s blog post). It was a terrific […]

The people in the wine industry are some of the most generous people I know. Despite the fact that they are typically middle class citizens themselves, most of the folk […]

Over the last six days, a contractor and I have worked to erect a pergola on the relatively large poured patio that existed in front of our house when we […]

I often find myself these days using an old expression that I was once rather fond of — “trump card”, only to cringe slightly and wish there was some way […]