The Amazing and Wonderful World of Self Giving!

The mailbox is a long-standing edifice to a past, marginally related to the current, digitally focused world. Once this was the source of our correspondence. Pre-dating the telephone, the “pony express” would deliver communication to households and homesteads far and wide.  Husbands, wives, and children would eagerly anticipate words from those located great distances away. […]

Black Waves

The mildly abrasive, warm, yellow sands stretch out to the limits of my vision, and tickle calloused feet as I squeeze and release chunks of sand between my, supposedly longer than normal, toes. I am tenuously holding between thumb, index finger, and middle of my right hand, a flimsy plastic trowel. A pail, no larger than a […]

Old? Or Old School?

When I was very young, my friends and I would gather at unchaperoned locations and drink.  After procuring quantities of alcohol and a vacant abode, we would gather and have a party. On one such occasion, my friends and I found ourselves unable to consume all the booze that had been acquired.  Since we couldn’t stash […]

DDD

The bourbon barrel aged beer is a highly sought after delicacy in the craft beer world.  Many companies have their own version of this style.  However, the reality is that not all are excellent offerings. Those barrel-aged brews that are deemed of the highest caliber are naturally those in greatest demand. While I contend, from […]