Some people have wine journals. Liz James told me about beer journals. Mine will double as a travel journal. More than wine, when I travel, I find beer. Not haute beer. Everyman beer. Beer I can order in any restaurant. And these stories are not the stories of the most amazing places I’ve seen. They …
Occasionally I throw around the idea of running for public office some day. I have a family history of public service…and big ideas about how to help San Antonio. Yesterday, I got a little taste of what my life would look like if I were a candidate for public office in San Antonio. 8:30-9:30 am …
Some people have wine journals. Liz James told me about beer journals. Mine will double as a travel journal. More than wine, when I travel, I find beer. Not haute beer. Everyman beer. Beer I can order in any restaurant. And these stories are not the stories of the most amazing places I’ve seen. They …
I love brewery tours. Especially in Europe. I’ve done quite a few, but two really stand out. First, the Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam. It’s slick, it’s corporate. But it’s got lots of fun things. Or maybe it doesn’t…I don’t really remember. Why don’t I remember? Because I went to the Heineken Brewery with Lee, on …
Some people have wine journals. Liz James told me about beer journals. Mine will double as a travel journal. When I travel, I drink beer. Not haute beer. Not craft beer. Not hip beer. Everyman beer. Beer I can order in any restaurant, or snatch at a corner store after a long day of activity. …
Florence, our precious little puppy, is 6 months old. She’s a pre-teen. And like all pre-teen girls, her life is really, really difficult. When she was a baby, it was okay if she ate herself to sleep… But now she has to go the vet and be weighed… And we never let her have her …
On our list of adventures to have with our buddy Colin, perhaps one of the geekier ones involved a visit to the Gault Site, one of the most significant archaeological sites in the world. That’s right…the world. I’m not just spouting superlatives. Apparently people come from around the world to study and work on this …
Part II: Itchy Hearts I continued to think about Liz’s wedding, making plans for bridals showers, bachelorette events…and started feeling a little nostalgia for the beginning of things. A longing for something new. It’s ironic because Liz and Jason have been together for almost twice as long as Lewis and I have, so I really can’t …
Prologue: Right before I got married, a lot of people started telling me about how difficult marriage would be. So many, so frequently, that I had a panic attack on the floor of my fiance’s kitchen, two weeks before our wedding. Part I: People Say Marriage is Difficult My friend Liz recently got engaged to …
Our dear friend, Colin, is leaving us in August. He’s going to Boulder, CO (of course). Lewis is sad to loose a kindred spirit. I am sad to lose one of our only friends who doesn’t think that all of my adventure ideas sound ominously fallible. In fact, Colin trumps me in great ideas that are …