Our friends Dave and Andrea, whom we hadn’t seen in almost a year since Dave took a job in Texas, were coming back to town for Christmas. Originally, we planned […]

I buried a friend today, figuratively speaking. What really happened was that I went to the celebration of life for someone I worked with, saw daily, and respected tremendously. We […]

My father loves to tell the story of the time that he, my cousin Todd, and I were riding in grandpa’s 1972 F100 pickup truck. We were out at the […]

Some nights, you just need a good glass of wine. Last night was one of those. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of the stuff around here, but when that’s the case, […]

The mark of good comedy, to me, is when I laugh aloud, and not just in my head. It’s pretty cool when something forces you to articulate your thoughts, and […]

Today, I ran the Goodlife Halfsy in Lincoln. I’ve run it three out of the four years it has occurred, pacing it once, and competing twice. Going in to today, […]

I’m sorry. I know that sounds crass, and after all, you’re reading a wine blog, so you’re clearly a sophisticated creature, but as “fire” recently became the new “f” word […]

Cross country ended unceremoniously last week when we didn’t qualify anybody for state, and yet this past week, despite having two hours a night freed up in my calendar, I […]

We’ve all been there, right? You send a text, you get no response, you start to worry? “They’re busy,” you tell yourself at first. Of course they are. Who isn’t? […]

Those of you of my generation may remember Better than Ezra, the band who penned the lyrics “desperately wanting,” but for the rest of us, the notion of desperation is, […]