May 30, 2007
After I got my Bachelors degree in History, and even before that, I knew I would go on to get either a Masters or a PhD. I just liked school and college in particular. But I never once, ever, considered getting an MBA degree. I wasn’t a business kind of guy. Also, those numbers? Not good. They tended to get big once you started working them and all sorts of fancy calculations and formulas got thrown into the mix; the…
May 16, 2007
It seems to me something of a rule (though with exceptions) that the really good writers and thinkers who take up blogging disappoint because they just don’t blog enough to satisfy the desire of their readers for a lot more of their really good stuff. They are stingy. This is the case with Thomas Pellechia’s "VinoFictions" blog, a source of wonderfully written, provocative, educational and opinionated posts by a man who knows his stuff. Pellechia is the author of "The…
May 14, 2007
It’s only a about a month away from the start of summer and that can only mean one thing: it’s time we start seeing zinfandel recommended to go with barbecued foods. How Zin became associated with barbecue I don’t know. But it is. This is both a blessing and a curse as far as I can tell. One the one hand, lots of people love barbecue and need a wine to go with the various styles of grilling, slow cooking…
May 7, 2007
Expectations. They color everything. Last night I sat down in my TV room with a good friend and a bottle of 1999 Haut Brion to watch the Mayweather–De La Hoya fight I’d Tivo’ed the night before. All day Sunday I avoided any media because I didn’t want to know the outcome. Seemed like everywhere I went a newspaper popped into my line of sight. Every time I turned on the radio a sports report was just coming on. In any…
May 3, 2007
Last night I was thumbing through National Geograhic Traveller and I come across one of those "how to DO" articles about Disneyworld. Insider trips, how to get te best out of the experience, etc. I like these articles. Every now and then they have a nugget in them that can transform your experience. But it got me thinking, as Tourist Season heads toward us here in my neck of the woods, there needs to be a HOW TO "DO" SONOMA …