As a writer I am already well-versed in the arts of social distancing. A certain amount of isolation goes with the territory.
Wine Just in Time
Friends might recall how a couple weeks ago, my close call, slightly nearer to death experience on a Megabus changed the way I think about drinking wine (i.e., drink the good stuff now, because you never know). Well, I laid a magnum bottle of this ruby port down in 1998 and sat on it like […]
Let there be light (and lots of it)
From the dawn of prehistory, we’ve defied the dark and cold of winter with festivals of light. Before there were rational explanations for the shortening of days, we sang songs, lit fires, ate rich food and drank strong spirits. If the big light in the sky was at a premium, well then we’d fill our […]
Throwback Thursday–wrestling nicotine and that other demon
This Throwback Thursday marks a milestone I’d rather keep behind me, but I have to own it. This picture is from July 2, 2014, the last day I used any tobacco product. But nicotine–that was another story, because once I gave up the cigars and all other tobacco products, I was chawing 4 tabs of […]
