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A friend of mine asked recently how many bottles of whiskey I have open right now. I guessed a little low it turns out. The question,...

Sometimes you'll find a movie that's overall fine, whatever, but then has a particularly good scene that, as a result, really improves...

Late this summer (and continuing into the fall) we've been drowning in tomatoes. We planted a bush in our little raised beds in the...

As we all likely know, Queen Elizabeth II, 'the Queen' our entire lives (unless you're far older than I) passed away in September. She...

It's the autumn season and time for apples. My wife found a place near us that has a few varieties as well as a hayride and pumpkins too,...

My last whiskey post was about Old Forester , a brand made by beverage conglomerate Brown-Forman since its beginning. The topic today,...

My last post bemoaned a weird stage where we were ready for a baby but she wasn't ready to join us yet. Well, to our relief, our little...

Kid #1 was born a day or two after his due date. Kid #2 was unexpectedly early, by more than a week. So with the expected arrival of kid...

Though I'm greatly saddened by the recent violence at the state fair (a brawl/shooting on the Midway Saturday night and a shooting just...

Amazon's the Rings of Power debuts this week (tonight!) after years of production and much wonderment about what it's going to include....

The aspect of parenting I seem to be struggling with most these days is setting a good example. This isn't across the board as I, for the...

James Caan died about a month ago. Soon after I saw a few film people I respect on Twitter talking about Thief (1981). I'd never heard of...

Monday night was the series finale of Better Call Saul, something I covered two years ago (link here). I want to talk about how it all...

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's trip to Asia, including a stop in Taiwan, has been a big topic of conversation. China tells us it...

Another big gap in American whiskey is anything and everything from the Brown-Forman Corporation . An American spirits company founded in...

The jokes are funny because they're true. A first child gets all the attention to his/her self. First-time parents tend to be much better...

The term 'non-stop thrill ride' is overused in describing movies, whether it appears in trailers or wherever else. It's untrue in...

We have more greens and vegetables than we know what to do with this summer, largely due to a CSA my wife signed up for. That's not a...

This year the 150th British Open golf tournament, a.k.a. 'the Open Championship,' one of golf's major tournaments, will be played at the...

Last weekend we spent a few days in Wisconsin Dells for the first time as a family. I'd been there a handful of times as a kid myself,...