All things wine…especially Napa Valley Fine Wines
I often wonder about NapaTheLab. Sometimes I wonder about her crazy antics. For instance how she can have a binful of dog toys, (thanks to BarkBox) which she treats as treasures until one of her BFFs (Best Furry Friends), Stella or Benny, visit and then they immediately become tug-o-war weapons quickly morphing into shreds of […]
“Celebrate the Good Stuff” Early this morning I was listening to singer Tom Rush’s Rockport Sunday(s) program on the Patreon platform. After this week’s featured song Tom talked a bit about the holidays. My interest was seriously grabbed when he closed with how this year, more than most, he believes it’s important we each take […]
Our first Thanksgiving… Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. Family, friends, feasting…no gifting, just gathering. Thankfulness. As we prepare for a pandemic-altering Thanksgiving this year, I find myself thinking back to other Thanksgivings. If you know me, you know there’s a reason I call Thanksgiving the ‘day of days’. This holiday always delivers massive […]
I sit nestled in the easy comfort of the darkness of 3:00 AM. Funny, but I continue to enjoy this time of day. The darkness is complete. The silence broken only by the occasional muffled woofing from Napa as she relishes in some dream. This is when I give myself permission to descend into as […]
And…it’s a wrap… All good things must come to an end. What began with unforeseen suddenness mid-March and adjusted with equal abruptness on May Day will be ending this weekend. Summer 2020 is transferring into my book of memories. I’ll mostly remember it as one sees things through a kaleidoscope. Jumbled up, barely recognizable, but […]
Obviously it was Halloween. We’d planned nothing out of the ordinary. My girlfriend and I had been invited to two Halloween parties; one downtown the other out in the suburbs. She’d borrowed a set of costumes for us from her aunt and I’d been informed we’d be attending those parties as Raggedy Ann and Andy. […]