Wine Trends in 2023 While wine is often associated with age-old traditions and savoir-faire, it is susceptible to trends. Many forces have been at play in the...
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Courage Winston Churchill said, “Courage is the most important virtue because the effective practice of all other virtues depends upon courage.” Merriam...
Chapter 149 Congratulations on making it to another year! The following was mostly written a month ago, coincidentally the same day Mauna Loa began to erupt on...
HIDDEN TREASURE Pirates are bad, and they seek buried treasure. I am not a pirate but I did discover some buried treasure. I said I am not a pirate but I have...
Celebrating the Holidays With Rani’s Homemade East Indian Food Rich, fragrant, sumptuous and sophisticated! East Indian cuisine is the ultimate winter comfort...
Chapter 148 As I finalize, I remember it’ll be December. I have to say, it’s been a great year. Lush. Thanks everyone who’s been a part of it in any way. I...
TREASURE FOR THE HEART “Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.”1 What was she treasuring? What was she pondering after the coarse...
Wars, Prohibition and Alcoholic Anonymous Over the past two years, I explored how soldiers and army leaders used alcohol to sustain the unbearable violence...
Ambivalence “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take...
Chapter 147 You’d think when immobilized at home, one would have all kinds of time to ruminate on the various meanings of life, resulting in startling insights...