valleyofthenewmoon

Well, if nothing else, I feel as if I have a new secret. And I do! I wonder how long I will be able to keep it. I have a weakness for weakne...

In just slightly less than one month it will be ten years since I have written here. I have come back to hide, in a sense. Nobody reads here...

I am becoming what many warned me that I might, a wine snob.  I just poured two bottles of wine out as undrinkable.  I tried letting the...

The experts say that Hemingway very likely did not ever say, "Write drunk, edit later," even in jest towards another.  He famo...

I have reviewed this wine once before, sort of.  Instead of writing about the wine I wrote about my reactions to the flat mockumentary, ...

splash the illusion is that you are simply reading this poem. the reality is that this is more than a poem. this is a beggar's...

Life is hard. I offer few answers, tonight... none. Each step is an ever-increasing stride into the backward maelstrom of eventual re...

I read an interesting article about taste recently, here it is.  It doesn't say much new, but it is worth the quick read.  It posit...

At $6 a bottle I'm not sure what qualifies this as being from the "private" selection, unless you consider a grocery store...

White wine is nice.  I don't know why I don't drink it more often.  It is pleasant and refreshing.  Also, one need not drink an ...