It was May of last year 2013 when I received the news that would shatter my heart into a million pieces. The kind of news that makes your entire universe stop. Not only does it stop, but it is all completely changed and none of it – not one single aspect, makes any sense … Continue reading
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Bittersweet Farewell: Domaine Mittnacht-Klack Edelzwicker
I fell in love on a cold day in January, 2010. After having fallen out of love with my boyfriend that I had been living with on the Upper East Side. Because he was planning a move to L.A. to join the last guy that broke my heart, I had to find a new … Continue reading
Weightless: Casa Madero Chardonnay Chenin Blanc
Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic … Continue reading
Snowing Down: Chasing Lions Cabernet Sauvignon
As I am writing the snow is coming down outside the coffee shop window that I am perched behind. New York City is under a winter storm warning with accumulations of 14 inches of snowfall predicted. I am ecstatic. I love snow, I do. I love everything about it. This sentiment, I’ve learned, to my … Continue reading
Resolutionize: Vidal Blanc Sparkling Wine
A New Year’s resolution is a secular tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice, such as opening doors for people beginning from New Year’s Day. – Wikipedia January 1, my birthday. … Continue reading
The Simple Life: Bogle Old Vine Zinfandel
Just at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, a single lane, dirt road leads to my sister’s retreat from life in Atlanta, her cabin in the woods. It is here were she and my two beautiful nieces, six and four, escape to nature. There are no neighbors, no wifi, no tv, and no makeup. … Continue reading