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Once Upon a Time – Inglenook
I'm so glad to see Inglenook back in the news thanks to Coppola. Why? Years ago when I first started photographing wine through the microscope, when Inglenook made great wine and still 'lived' in their original buildings, their PR director hired me to photograph 45...
Letting go
A while back a friend and I were talking about cancer. He's a long-term survivor and has groups for people with cancer. As a medical scientist who did cancer research for years (funded by NIH, ACS) I like to learn about people's healing experiences. He told me the...
Here’s to Jess Jackson
I never knew the man in person. I did know his wines and when I traveled throughout the US I was always glad to see them on the menu. They were dependable. I could count on them to be good. I was saddened to hear of his passing. And I always remember the portrait I...
Shaping Taste
All my words and pictures about the art and shapes in wine may strike you as odd. However there is some scientific grounding in the idea of the shape of molecules. They have a complementarity meaning they must fit another molecule in order to exert their effects. In...
Creation Stories
There are lots of views about "In the Beginning." One of the most common 'INITIATORS' of CREATION is SOUND. In the beginning was the word, was the sound, was the thought, was the Big Bang. No matter the myth, sound in some form played an essential role in creation....
Strings of our Cells
The most exciting science discovery to come out of biology - the STRINGS of our cells. Underneath the glimmery shimmery membrane is a gossamer fabric reaching throughout the cell -from end to end, from the outer barrier to the core genes in the nucleus. It is the...
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