Roadside reflections at the 50 milepost

Gwyneth Paltrow: actress, wine lover, and birthday girl

My dear mom spent over 24 hours at San Jose Hospital on what she claims to have been the hottest day of the year back in 1957. Apparently I was quite snuggy-buggy there in the womb and didn’t want to come out!

But there’s an inevitability to such things, and thus I entered this world 50 years ago today. So glad I did, too, seein’ as how I’ve come this far and still manage to feel pretty good about my life. I feel pretty good about most things, including how I feel: regular hiking, a reasonably healthy diet, and a glass of red wine every day allow me to feel as if I’m much closer to 30.

What’s in a number, right? It’s really about how you feel - and what you feel - that counts.

I feel a lot of love for a lot of things, including my many friends, where I live, breathing, and my mom. I do believe Mom has since forgiven me for making her life miserable on that too-hot day way back when.

Thank you, Mom! I could not have been the winehiker without you.

Other birthdays today:

• Beth Heiden (1959): bronze-medal-winning 3000-meter Olympic speed skater
• The Central Intelligence Agency (1947), formerly the Office of Strategic Services, born via the National Security Act and since transmogrified into an often-overestimated agency with evidently limited capabilities for preserving civil liberties around the globe. I think the CIA can’t possibly be a Libra.
• Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) who, at age 35, may not consume wine as regularly as I do, but certainly consumes the good stuff. How do I know? She’s a member of bottlenotes.com’s Little Black Dress Club where she rates the 2002 Enrique Foster Malbec Limited Edition from Mendoza, Argentina a perfect five stars. She’s right to do so, since I agree with her: it’s simply the best Malbec I’ve ever tried. Ladies, you gotta check out Bottlenotes CEO Alyssa Rapp’s interview with Ms. Gwyneth on her Little Black Dress Club blog.

~winehiker

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