Ever get the urge to wad up a bunch of big slushy snowballs only to smash all your friends upside the head (and other places) with them? Well, of course you have.
The Winehiker, naturally, is all about fun things like big long multidenominational morphemes - and snowball wars. Why, I’ll even do such fun stuff […]

I’ve been invited by the nice folks at Cinnabar Winery to speak at their next Alchemy Tuesdays program, which is scheduled for January 8th. The public is invited, and yes! - it’s on a Tuesday evening. Imagine that.

 
So far I’d have to say I’m delighted by the variety of speakers who have presented in this […]

Like multitudes of others inspired by its jaw-dropping grandeur, I have been quite fond of visiting Yosemite National Park on a regular basis over the years. With three summits of Half Dome to my credit and a few harrowing bear stories to tell, it seems that I can’t let a season go by without stopping […]

If you’ve got three minutes and twenty seconds,
you gotta watch this video!

Yesterday afternoon I received an email I had been anticipating since late last Spring: a note from the executive producer of NBC-TV’s award-winning In Wine Country show alerting me about my TV appearance!

As you may recall from my previous posts, the show’s host, Mary Babbitt, discovered me on this very blog early in the year and, as a […]

I’m no Chandler Bing. And yet upon first sniffing, then tasting this 2004 EOS Reserve Petite Sirah from Paso Robles, I was culturally compelled to say:
Oh. My. Gawd!

The long-running sitcom, Friends, featured Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing. And strangely, now I do too. Photo source: toppics4u.com

Our friend Chandler also said:
I’m not really good at giving […]

With cool days and colder nights upon us here in California, ’tis the season for comfort foods and warm spicy drinks to keep our spirits cheerful. One of the holiday spices I tend to cheer for most is nutmeg, a spice quite universal in its appeal and one that is found in a great many holiday […]

Friends and fellow readers, are you feeling creative? Wouldn’t it be fun to collaborate on a multi-authored story?
My challenge to you is to use this blog’s Add your thoughts here/Leave A Reply feature to add a paragraph that either dovetails with its preceding paragraph or departs from it in a convincing way, as long as […]

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I admit that writing an English-language-only blog tends to exclude more than half the wine-loving population of the world and probably […]

Where does the stuff we consume come from? When we’re done with it, where does it go? Is our present linear materials economy going to sustain us in the future?

From how we extract the Earth’s resources to how we produce, distribute, consume, and dispose them, Annie Leonard presents The Story of Stuff, a 20-minute fast-paced […]