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Visual Taste-soft red
The situation: I was going to a book signing and needed to bring two different decent wines, one that was a soft red, one an angular white. They also had to be inexpensive since I needed a few bottles. The guy at Trader Joe's recommended this 2008 Babble for the...
STrut YOUR STUFF
Have you ever wondered what you need to do to stretch your limits? TO Expand the possibilities in your life? One thing is certain, we need to shift our mind and attitudes. Think differently! Remember the early APPLE ads? One way to stretch our mind is to stretch our...
A jewel of a wine
When I open a bottle of wine to photograph I always wonder what will it look like. Will it look like how I experienced it - smooth or harsh, as example. And then there are times when a winery gives me samples to photograph and I have had no tasting experience of the...
What Motivates Us to Change?
I've been working with a physician who's writing a book on the new healthcare. The costly broken system we have has to be changed, and so does our personal responsibility for our own health. And we have significant research showing that many of the illnesses we get,...
Spirit of the Vine
I live with a large portrait of this lively spirit found in a glass of Sauvignon Blanc. It was the winemaker's favorite wine, not mine. However its hidden beauty and expression have brought light into my home for almost three decades. It was the 2nd wine I...
Lovesong: a book review
I don't write book reviews but this one had to be done. Never has a book impacted me so deeply as Julius Lester’s Lovesong: Becoming a Jew. Sure I was interested because I am Jewish but more than that I had first read his more recent novel Autobiography of God,...
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