Category: Featured
So, you want to be a blogger?
Posterior Pontifications Quite a while back Steve Heimoff wrote a piece about the state of blogging. Judging by the number of people who sent me the link, a good number of them bloggers, it was expected that I would take offense ...
The Water of Life
Life without passion is no life at all. Some people have a single passion, that one overriding interest that makes everything else fade to gray. While many hit that level of dedication to a singular interest at times in life, ...
Money, Guns and Workers: The True Meaning of Labor Day
After six days of wine tasting and pairing in Portland and Carlton, Oregon, we headed on a walking tour of the city and landed at Powell's City of Books. Since Joe and I are secretly book nerds (we used to ...
A Symphony of Artistry: Cornerstone Oregon Pinot Noir
I am sitting at my kitchen table looking out the window after a rainstorm. The blinds are half-mast, so I cannot see the gray sky. My view is just of the yard to the top of our wood fence and ...
Lima Beans, Wine and Jane’s Addiction
When you were a little kid, you probably hated peas. I not only hated peas, but loathed lima beans. It was not so much the flavor, as the consistency. Lima beans, especially when prepared hastily, or from a can with ...
On Becoming a Mom at 50
When I first met Joe's younger child, he was only four years old. I was visiting Toledo, Ohio, for Christmas and we were at that "serious" point in the relationship when Dad lets the girlfriend meet the kids. While Joe's older ...
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
You have to choose Play with the boys You're bound to lose A bottle in one hand A can in the other Don't fool around 'cause they're real mean mothers -Wild in the Streets, Circle Jerks For the past couple of months, and then culminating in this past ...
It’s Syrah, Dammit!
I try not to play favorites. When someone asks me what my favorite wine or grape is I usually babble some non-committal bullshit until I see their eyes glaze over and I know it is safe to change the subject. ...
Wine: Myths and Mystery, a Top Ten List
Is there any other popular beverage steeped in so much myth and mystery as wine? Even Scotch would seem to be a distant second. There is no simpler alcoholic beverage to make if you break it down by basic process ...
Seghesio: Still a Family Winery
It was raining when I arrived at the vast Seghesio Family Vineyards' facilities for a harvest time tour. Unlike Texas that would have welcomed it after a drought that wrought mass brush fires searing a swath through the Lone Star ...
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