Last-Minute Holiday Gift Ideas: Wine! (Yes, you have to share)

Luckily these bottles were empty before the SEC Championship. Typically picking up Holiday gifts at the grocery store is considered, if you’ll forgive the pun, in poor taste.  What could grocery store shelves hold of any value beyond the tan and gold boxes of candy with maybe two edible pieces in them?  Okay, I’ll always

Tasting Notes: Dr. Goldilocks and the Six Tempranillos

Once upon a time, there was a stressed-out allied health professional with curly hair the color of old pennies, but shiny. We’ll skip the debate as to whether it’s blond or red, and we’ll completely ignore the gray that’s popping in – they’re just really light blond, darnit! She had a long four-day week with

Tasting Notes: Brown Bagging It at JavaMonkey

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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