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My wife went over the top with a combo anniversary/Christmas gift this year and got me a whiskey advent calendar. So yes, it had a...

Our toddler is smack dab in the middle of being two and we expect emotions to run high. Tantrums and other outbursts were already...

As part of the Christmas gift for my mom this year, I had the idea to put together a shortlist of approachable history books. She likes...

Maintaining a variety, both in what I have open at home and in what I write-up here, is a fun part of exploring whiskey. Today's is a...

With the arrival of our second son, we needed (greatly wanted) reinforcements this December, so my mom was here for a couple of weeks and...

The Mandalorian season two resumed late this year (my thoughts from s1) without missing a beat, and keeps getting better and better. I'm...

Christmas movies aren't a must-do thing for me. Still, every year we see a number of them. Elf (2003) and White Christmas (1954) are my...

Somehow to this point I've completely neglected Wild Turkey, a distillery I like quite a bit. Let's take care of that. The history of...

The due date was December 17th. Right now only one hospital visitor is allowed per mother giving birth, and even in normal times children...

I'm enamored with Carnage and Culture, a book covering nine battles through the history of western civilization and attempting (rather...

I feel it's time for more Bourbon. Today's expression has been a consistent staple in my house the last few years, a hint as to how much...

As happens periodically, I'm drawn to play through the old Halo campaigns. It'd been years since attempting Halo 2 Legendary and I hadn't...

Most vacations we take aren't very relaxing. That's as true now as it was before we had kids, though where we go and what we do has...

Sean Connery, probably my absolute favorite actor, died a few weeks ago. There's something fitting about it all ending in the Bahamas....

With the whiskey reviews accumulating here, I'm trying to show off the diversity available. That's most apparent with Scotch, which is...

Recently I watched Hotel Artemis, currently available on Prime. Set in Los Angeles in the near future, the city is crumbling and burning...

While I wasn't excited to move to Maryland when we made the jump in 2014, I've since come to love a number of aspects of living here. One...

To continue with single malt reviews today's whisky is another from Islay, that amazing and beautiful little island off the west coast of...

My wife has a mostly typical work schedule and is usually only busy during the week. Like most people, the weekends are for everything...

We won't be traveling to Minnesota for either Thanksgiving or Christmas this year, with the baby due in December. So we decided to go in...