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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 wife's favorites (I like them too) and always take priority. I'm a big fan of It's a Wonderful Life (1946), though we don't watch it annually. We've done Die Hard (1988) on Christmas Eve a bunch of years in a row now, which started as a joke but is becoming a fun tradition. (I know Die Hard isn't actually a Christmas movie, it just takes

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 October instead and see family and friends, and just returned to Maryland last weekend. As we've done in years past around Christmas, we drove back. That way we'd have our own vehicle and we could bring our dog instead of boarding him. We didn't want to fly and attempt forcing our son to wear a mask either, which wouldn't work out. Making it

The Presidential election is tomorrow. It'd certainly be best if we know the winner sooner rather than later. Today I think it's a good...

Like the 200 series on American whiskey, the 300s will cover Scotch whisky in more detail. An introduction to the regions is a good...