Category Archive: Wine & Life

P.S. Wine is Fun

You’ve forgotten those June nights at the Riviera…the night I drank Champagne from your slipper – two quarts. It would have been more but you were wearing inner soles.– Groucho Marx, At the… Continue reading →

Yuletide!

Lots of cheer from grapes of cath! I will be celebrating a traditional Luke girl holiday- cookies for breakfast (lunch and dinner too), John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album on repeat, a… Continue reading →

It’s Alive!

After 94 years of strolling through this crazy world my cute little Uncle Andrew passed into the next. Uncle Andrew was a sweet and quirky man who kept a petrified fruit collection and… Continue reading →

A Very Corky Christmas

Or maybe I should say a very dorky Christmas… Sending out holiday cards via snail mail is one of my favorite activities.  Ever.  Strange…but true.  This year I got a little crafty and… Continue reading →

#Trending

Never ever stop thinking for yourself.  Likewise, never ever stop drinking for yourself! A wine is not going to taste any better or worse because it is poured for a fancy crowd, touted… Continue reading →

“Maps, wait! They don’t love you like I love you…”

Psyche! They really do love you…a lot. Maps are amazing. They take you outside of yourself- your corner of the room, block, town, country, continent, universe. We are mere mini-bits of the whole,… Continue reading →

A Note on the Corkscrew

On the left, an advertisement for a Brookstone “Automatic Wine Opener with Built-in Foil Cutter”.  Cost: $49.99.  On the right, a classic pulltap corkscrew, which will run you approximately 10 bones, depending on… Continue reading →