Blood Red Syrah Lives!

Imagine the squeaky sucking sound and explosive pop a champagne cork makes when it blasts from the bottle. Now envision the noise a human eyeball makes when it’s freed from a tight socket after Wally Wilson inserts and turns the corkscrew, twists the orb and removes the unsightly sphere. Envision? Unsightly? Get it? Gross, don’t […]

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Every Day Is Paddy’s Day

Maybe my Aunt Eileen bought the small shamrock lapel pin for my father, Shamus. Maybe my Aunt Catherine carried the little green and gold piece of Ireland back from one of her early trips to Cornamona, in County Galway, where my grandfather was born. Thrilled with the keepsake, every day for decades Shamus stuck that […]

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