Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
I’m trying a new experiment this weekend. Rather than waiting until Sunday night to write this post, I’m doing it a little at a time as the weekend goes on. Hopefully that will make it easier to do them regularly. Or procrastinate on my fiction writing. Let’s see.. My current fiction project, title TBD, is …
Yes, two blogs posts from me in a week! I promised to keep you apprised of the developments at the World Headquarters of Random Oenophile Enterprises as the winter weather moves through, so this is my entry for Day One. So, as you probably know by now we got some snow: It started here last …
In Mindfulness there’s a concept called Beginner’s Mind, wherein you shelve preconceptions, expectations, and interpretations and experience things as though you’re seeing, hearing, or – most importantly for this post – tasting them for the very first time. I think I got my first inkling of this in graduate school, when the newest darts player …
Note: I had hoped that Hubby would write this one, and that was the original plan, but he’s swamped with work right now. He’ll be covering the next one for me because I’m out of town this week. I’m spending the week in Birmingham to help Mom out after yesterday’s surgery. Hubby and I were …
I almost got my wish for Pacific Northwest weather last night. A small black cloud blew over Decatur but didn’t stick around long enough to do much. Oh, well. Thanks to all of you who checked in on Twitter to play the drinking game. I tried to make it easy for you. The wines: 2006 …