Please join me in Napa this summer!
Good morning, friends, and happy holidays! I hope this post finds you thriving, flourishing, and enjoying the holiday season! After a wonderful, long, wonderfully long semester of teaching both high […]
Good morning, friends, and happy holidays! I hope this post finds you thriving, flourishing, and enjoying the holiday season! After a wonderful, long, wonderfully long semester of teaching both high […]
We returned from our most recent trip to wine country a little over a week ago, on a flight so badly delayed that we got home at 3:30AM. We had […]
Traveling with little kids is, well, pure lunacy. Airports are hectic enough without trying to wrangle tiny humans, entertain them, change their diapers, and transport their luggage, car seats, and […]
When major candidates seem to have been reduced to attacking one another 140 characters at a time, the nation they seek control over is becoming increasingly polarized by hateful rhetoric, […]
As a lifelong fan of the Kansas City Chiefs, Coach Dick Vermeil is one of my sports heroes. He may never have brought a Super Bowl victory to my team, but he […]
I’ve always been a fan of the founder of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Warren Winiarski. Responsible for the Cab heard round the world in 1976, when Napa’s reds and whites […]
When I first saw the movie Bottleshock at a friend’s house in Kansas City, we were sipping cheap Chianti and simply enjoying an entertaining story. Soon after, on a honeymoon in Napa […]
Peter Mondavi (moan-dah-vee), for much of his early life Peter Mondavi (mon-day-vee), died on February the 20th, 2016, in his home in St. Helena, California, just about two weeks prior […]
There was a time in history, no doubt, when the valley carved by the Napa River was truly an image of Eden, pure and unspoiled, a place genuinely and fully […]
It wasn’t enough, of course, that our low-budget flight from Omaha landed in San Francisco at almost midnight, nor that the flight had been delayed in Denver by nearly half […]