Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
I prefer beginning vacations to ending them. At least this week I’m tapering off vacation by having gone from Asheville to Blairsville, where Hubby and I are helping my dad celebrate a big birthday ending in 0. I’m so glad we live close enough to my parents to do things like that. After Battery Park, …
Today’s post is being brought to you by the Battery Park Book Exchange. Yes, I might be at the bar hanging out with the spoils of my bookstore tour of Asheville and a glass of Prosecco. Hubby and I have our system worked out for visiting beer towns – he finds breweries, and I find …
Hey, y’all, did you miss me? I’m embarrassed that I haven’t posted in so long. Yes, I’ve been drinking, but most of my writing has been fiction or for the day job. I lost my contract psychologist to a major medical system that provided more financial security than private practice, and my admin has mostly …
Hubby and I took off the day after Christmas to Asheville, North Carolina, for a romantic, post-holiday few days in what has become one of our favorite places to visit. We took the opportunity on the way up to taste wine at Tiger Mountain Vineyards (click here for tasting notes and winery review) and were …
With New Year’s Eve coming up, many people wonder about what would be a good, reasonable sparkling wine to open at or prior to midnight of the newish decade. Yes, time geeks have informed me that the new decade doesn’t technically start until 2011, but if I have to remember to change two numbers when …