“Marley was dead: to begin with.” ...

Failing at Advent....

Crime fiction. Artichokes. Thanksgiving poem about a bar....

Pig butchering, batching cocktails, and the Spinners....

Experts, crime fiction, drinks, poetry....

Have you ever looked through the wrong end of a telescope?  The object at which you gaze looks tiny, and slightly blurred at the edges. ...

Memorial Day weekend. War poem, summer vermouth, Carey Grant, and Tavares. ...

College presidents, Congress, cocktails. And a thriller....

Crime fiction at Birmingham's "Noir at the Bar."...

Special Thanksgiving knowledge about drinking on airplanes....