Musings on wine, food, recipes, restaurants, and other topics
Greetings, all! Well, after a month busy with traveling to celebrate our birthdays – highlights coming soon – Hubby and I are back in Atlanta, which is abloom with spring flowers. There’s also quite the tree orgy going on with pollen showing up on our cars any time they’re outside for more than, oh, 30 …
The first time I remember having sherry, Hubby and I were staying in a boutique hotel in the North Beach part of San Francisco. Every afternoon at 6:00 p.m. they would serve sherry. I don’t know what kind it was, only that it tasted like alcoholic maple syrup. It pretty much turned me into a …
Greetings, everyone, and welcome to the new and improved Random Oenophile website and blog! Hubby and I are really excited for this beautiful new site courtesy of Selestiele Designs, and we look forward to getting back to blogging on a regular basis. Btw, mobile users, I know the background image is a little wonky. Trust …
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 …
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 …