Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
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 …
Autumn is one of those seasons that can go either way here in the South. Some years it’s shorts weather on Thanksgiving. Other years it gets cold early, and it feels like it’s one of those. Our weekend nights were quite chilly, even down to 39 last night. Yes, I can hear my relatives in …
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 …
One of Hubby’s and my favorite places to go is up to my parents’ place in Blairsville. We call it “the cabin,” but it’s actually a three-story house stuck to the side of a mountain with a fabulous view, even on gloomy days: Look closely for hints of fall color. We’ve been up there quite …
Well, it’s been an interesting couple of weeks at the Dominic household. I haven’t done this column in a while because first I had a stomach bug and couldn’t stand to think about food. And then Hubby got some sort of stomach ickiness, and we passed it back and forth for a while. We were …
I’m super excited to welcome Bob Manley to the blog today to kick off what I hope will become a series of interviews of professionals in the wine industry. Bob is one of the partners at Hermit Woods Winery, and when you go to their tasting room, you’ll probably see him. He was my liaison …
The tasting bar at Hermit Woods Winery I was going to try and figure out how to do this overlaid with the lyrics to the Katy Perry song I Kissed a Girl, but alas, I just couldn’t make it work. In the wine world there are anti-snobs, or people who eschew snobbery and then get …
Since the kids these days are all about lists, I thought I’d create one to discuss some of the highlights from our recent trip to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada. Before you ask, no we didn’t see any of the Women’s World Cup soccer (futbol for those of you from outside the U.S.) …
Happy belated July Fourth and Canada Day! This post covers the food we made for both. Since Canada Day was July first, I’ll start with that one. I got caught in a hellacious rainstorm that afternoon while on a marketing visit, and so I was really happy that Hubby volunteered to cook that night while …
Well, I’ve been here, there, and everywhere, or that’s how it seems. The past month and a half has included trips to North Georgia, Athens, Dallas, Seattle, Okanagan Valley, and Vancouver. I do plan to blog on some of those, but I wanted to get back to the basics. I’m ready to get serious about …