In Vino Veritas
As many of you know and some have tasted, my family has a wine business. Specifically, we make a zinfandel called Wine Guerrilla. It began as a project of my mom’s longtime boyfriend, Bruce, but soon...
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Awhile back, I shared the unfortunate story of how my family’s wine business had been usurped by an unsavory investor whom I had dubbed “The Onceler,” after Dr. Seuss’ famously greedy villain from the...
View ArticleLa Vie En Rose
In France these days, nobody is drinking red wine. I brought a nice Cotes du Rhone to the home of friends in Paris; they thanked me, tucked it away, and brought out the rosé. “It is hot,” friend...
View ArticleLa Ruta
I was recently in Mexico — again. (My brother when he later saw me asked, “Do you have your Mexican citizenship yet?”) This time, it was with the family — and two of my favorite other families. My...
View ArticleLife Under Self Quarantine
I was going through my phone deleting recent photos, when I noticed a troubling trend developing in the photos I’d been taking during the second half of March. These were all photos I took in the...
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