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Nearly all my friends use gas to grill, so I thought I'd do a little explainer on charcoal and why it's preferable. My wife was (*Bane...

Think of me what you will, but a friend and I traveled to Las Vegas this past weekend. After getting a few nights comped at the Palazzo...

Lately I've really been craving chicken wings. Since I don't think I've grilled them before (I know we've done slow-cooker and oven...

If you actually know me and didn't already know the following I apologize for not sharing. We're expecting our second child in December....

To coincide with the final season of Game of Thrones, and its total train-wreck of a narrative, Diageo last year released a line of...

Board games, particularly strategy games, have always been something I enjoy. As a kid through elementary and middle school I played a...

We have family that lives near Homer, Alaska. It's quite a trip, but it's one we try to make once a year to see those loved ones and...

This was supposed to be a happy post. Going to be called 'The boys are back!' I'd cover the return of baseball over the weekend. It's...

What's the real motivation behind all of the 'live-action' remakes of Disney animated classics in recent years? Is it simply a straight...

Hamilton was, and is, a national phenomenon. I never thought we'd see it and like many others was quite happy it'd be streaming on...

Today's whiskey review is of a bottle I found for a great price in Alaska of all places, the Colonel E.H. Taylor Small Batch. The Grog...

I really tried to finish enough blog posts to cover an absence of more than a week. Not quite succeeding, at least I only missed one....

Well I'm still tackling Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts, and as always not making enough time to read. Even missing a lot of context...

I really like Green Spot, a relatively premium NAS Irish whiskey. It's probable we first tried it in Ireland on our 2015 trip there,...

One of the cooler places we've visited since moving out east is Assateague Island on the Maryland/Virginia coast, part of the Delmarva...

I like movies, but I'm rarely up to date on most current ones. I see, generally, a number of comic book films and rare others (say,...

Tonight I'm reviewing Angel's Envy Kentucky straight Bourbon whiskey finished in Port barrels . What a mouthful. It's made by Angel's...

Well I'm finally watching the Americans, a show long near the top of my list. And, shocker, I'm loving it (on Prime btw). Only through...

I've done brisket on the smoker a couple times. It had always been flats before, though the last one was enormous (for a flat) at...

Our son Jack turned two. I can barely believe it. It doesn't, by any means, feel like we brought him home yesterday. I was still working...