Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
(or “Cecilia ran off to San Francisco and all you get is this lousy blog post”) Yes, Cecilia is off at a convention in San Francisco this weekend, so the blogging for this week’s JavaMonkey tasting gets left to me. As is usual on the third Thursday on each November, this tasting was all about …
There is a statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of the Old Dekalb County Courthouse in Decatur. It depicts him sitting, quill pen in hand, looking into space, doubtlessly pondering his next passage as he writes the Declaration of Independence. For years, I’ve always felt that something was missing from the statue. After all, Thomas …
Okay, it’s not a long drive, but… I don’t usually talk about what I do on social media outlets, but sometimes I feel it’s warranted, and this is one of those times. As you’ve probably heard, an old law is going to cause the Medicare reimbursement rates to healthcare providers to be cut by around …
Yeah, Hubby and I have been hitting the sauce again. Shocking, right? We went up to my parents’ cabin in Blairsville in September and October and decided to check out a new (to us) winery and one that we’d visited before. With the Winter Wine Highway 2010 weekend coming up in a few weeks (Dec …
Autumn is my favorite time of year. The changing leaves, cool weather, and thoughts of the holidays put me in a good mood, and, of course, there are fun festivals. No, I’m not talking about harvest festivals. My favorite by far has to be the Decatur Wine Festival.This year’s Wine Fest was particularly good, likely …
This year’s Decatur Wine Festival has a focus on organic and sustainably produced wines. In the same spirit, this is a sustainable blog post in that I’ve recycled some of last year’s etiquette and survival post. Now that we’ve all survived the elections, who wants a glass of wine? Or several? Seriously, whoever planned the …
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 …
So I’m finally moved out of my old office, and tomorrow is move-in day for the new one. Yes, I think I’ll need a nice bottle of wine to celebrate. Thanks for your patience, and look for more frequent updates from now on… Eco friendly canvas wine bag: I’d be excited about The Little Wine …
Ack, two metaposts in a row! Sorry about that. The countdown I’m referring to is the move to my new office in Decatur. Yes, I get to be a Decatur business owner starting in October. It also means I’m stuck in detail hell right now, so I don’t have much time for blogging, although there’s …
This past month has been a time of big decisions for me, and I feel like I have a lot of balls in the air. I also fear that there are a few up there that will surprise me and bonk me on the head if I don’t catch them soon enough. One of the …