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Buffalo Trace

It wasn't that long ago Buffalo Trace was a readily available, quality Bourbon you could grab for <$30. That's how it was when I started...

The full Alaskan experience

It's summer and we're back from our annual pilgrimage to see my wife's sister's family on the Last Frontier. I've written in the past...

They were Little Women

In a classic Simpsons episode, Homer Loves Flanders (s5 e16), Homer actually befriends, for one time only, his long-hated,...

My Strength Finder

Introduced through work (I believe), my wife is a big fan of Clifton Strengths, previously called 'Strength Finder.' After taking an...

Joanna Gaines' chocolate chip cookies

I didn't bake before I started this blog and started trying a bunch of new things, with one exception: I made chocolate chip cookies. It...

Bardstown Origin Wheated

As I pointed out in my Bourbon Trail post , my biggest takeaway from our Kentucky trip is my newfound fandom of Bardstown Bourbon...

Breath of the Wild

A post about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been on my to-do list since starting this blog, it was just always a bit...

The Searchers

I used to not like John Wayne. For some reason, in my head, I thought he was boring, too often the hero, constantly calling people...

The Bourbon Trail (Kentucky)

Two weekends ago we crossed something off our bucket list, visiting the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky. The impetus for the trip was our 10th...

Suddenly, friends

Our kids have always had friends, of one kind or another, though until recently they've mostly been through friends of my wife and I, or...

Why do I even care?

I rarely, if at all, write about my sports fandom, because I can't imagine it matters to anyone else, especially when using this longer...

146 BC: Rome settles all family business

In the third and second centuries BC the powers of the Mediterranean were the Roman Republic and Carthage in the west and the Hellenistic...

Lagavulin 11 Offerman Edition ('21)

Between slowing down on writing in general and slowing down on how rapidly I do whiskey-related posts, I'm surprised how spread out the...

Studio Ghibli

A big highlight of having HBOMax has been diving into its wealth of foreign films, in particular those from Japan. I've enjoyed seeing...

Xenophon's Ten Thousand

In case you couldn't tell, I've really been into ancient Greece lately. After hearing about it a couple times in other books, I decided...

The longest week

Last week we started potty training our #2 child. It was probably the longest week of my life. This is one of those parts of parenting...

Oops I messed up my blog

About two weeks ago I was working on a new post. Wix (the site hosting this), when going to upload a picture said I was over my limit for...

Whistlepig 10

Time for another whiskey, and it's a fun one. I'd already been wondering how Whistlepig, a little distillery in Vermont, rose to such...

Battleship Potemkin and the Untouchables

Fairly recently I watched Battleship Potemkin (1925), a silent-era Soviet propaganda film that (amusingly in retrospect) was banned in...

Last Word (and Final Ward) cocktail

I'm not usually that into cocktails. It should probably be obvious by now my preference with liquor is whiskey, as it comes. But, with...

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