Ginger M., a new Facebook friend in Eve’s Wine 101 group, took this perfect photograph. I’m no artist but the light and range of colors blew me away. I didn’t want to just post it on the right side of this blog as I wanted to show it as large as possible. Thoughts? Thirsty for…
Retirement Planning If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $40.00. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00. With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left. If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00…
Were there really men over forty-years-old dancing in my family room to Eraserhead? (Or was it Tortoise Head or maybe even the more discerning, Porpoise Head?) Eddie’s CD collection from the eighties strewn across every available counter top? Middle-aged women discussing random acts of body piercing in my kitchen? An impromptu lecture on getting really…
Last night, one of my best friends and I were sitting in my living room and I said to her: I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug. She got up, unplugged the computer, and threw out…
The day after Christmas 2008, we found ourselves in Florence, Italy for one week as a result of having found an outrageously low airfare offered on the Internet. This time my wife and I took the opportunity to introduce another couple, who had never been to Italy before, to Tuscany during the 2009 New Years…
A reader sent me this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/dining/reviews/04wine.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 and commented: It’s hard to imagine any region outdoing Santa Barbara for the sheer variety of chardonnay styles it offers. I told him that I had always preferred Santa Ynez Chards to Santa Barbara but I will now be researching the Santa Rita Hills area…and seeing what our…
Dragonfly is glad to be a part of the newly forming Santa Clarita Vintners and Growers Association. This group of winemakers and growers really know their craft and are not only all very good friends but inspiration to each other as well. Dragonfly couldn’t have taken the next step without the involvement of this group…
I am drinking while writing, like Stephen King’s early years: scary but with spell check! Anyway, been contemplating the new “youth factor” of my Facebook Eve’s Wine 101 group that grows by over a dozen new members a day. They’re young. And extremely attractive. Drive motorcycles. Into beer and wine. Former bartenders. And for some…
Our parents had neighborhood bars. If you entered one the day you turned 21 your eyes would have had to adjust to the darkness and the clouds of stale cigarette smoke. online pharmacy xenical no prescription pharmacy One long row of swivel bar stools turned just enough to view neighbors on either side hunched over…
When you marry a firefighter you learn that all that all of the “events” don’t actually occur when they are on a 24 hour shift. Valentines Day, birthdays, OTBN don’t take place when your loved one is blissfully laid back in a vinyl recliner in front of a 56 inch screen TV with nothing but…