"But a fool and his money soon go separate ways…"

by Katie Gomez January 4, 2010

You have to love it when the latest in email scams makes it into a local newspaper. It’s not like there isn’t a quagmire engulfing our world worth reporting on. Local wineries are being taken for a ride, and others need to be warned. But fear not—The Napa County District Attorney’s Office is hard at […]

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"Sail away sweet sister, back to my arms again…"

by Katie Gomez January 2, 2010

It was a surreal moment last Sunday, sitting at one head of the dinner table and seeing my baby sister at the other head, with our loved ones spanning the length of either side, eager to eat a meal she and I had just prepared. I had spent years trying to coax her into the […]

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY – "One of these things is not like the others…"

by Katie Gomez December 23, 2009
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"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste…"

by Katie Gomez December 21, 2009

You have to admire a man who had the cunning to convince a woman to knock boots with him inside an industrial-size mash tun at the brewpub where he worked.  As unsanitary, improper and well, illegal as it may be, that sort of diplomacy, negotiation and conquest are impressive. There’s also something to be said […]

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY – "So sweet, you make my mouth water…"

by Katie Gomez December 16, 2009
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"I can feel no sense of measure, no illusion as we take refuge in young man's pleasure…"

by Katie Gomez December 11, 2009

There is plenty of chest pounding in the wine industry from winemakers that boast about their determination to maintain their individuality and uniqueness, their insistence that human intervention be minimal, and their willingness to stand apart from the “crowd”. They claim, in essence, to be iconoclasts when in fact they look and sound a lot […]

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"I want a Chuck Berry record, and a picture of Elvis, too…"

by Katie Gomez December 8, 2009

It’s that time of year again, when I feel compelled to make a few gift-giving suggestions to the holiday-purchase challenged. I can only speak for myself here, but we can only store so many funky corkscrews and display so many reindeer bottle toppers before our home starts looking like some sort of weird S&M Christmas […]

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"Have a little faith in me…"

by Katie Gomez December 2, 2009

When you’re forced into capitulating to blind faith in the absence of any logical, scientific proof for what you would swear on your tits is true, there is a second struggle—admitting that blind faith to others. It’s not easy to say, “Don’t ask me why, it just is what it is” when you’re supposed to […]

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"There ain't another like me baby who knows just how to turn you out…"

by Katie Gomez November 28, 2009

I’ve always believed that both Thanksgiving and Christmas are a lot like orgasms. There’s usually a lot of planning, build-up and anticipation, a moment of climax and elation so grand that it leaves you in a state of catatonic bliss (with a shit-eating grin permanently fixed on your face), and then inevitably you’re left with […]

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"Thank you terror, thank you disillusionment, thank you frailty…"

by Katie Gomez November 24, 2009

It’s been a standing tradition in my family for as long as I can remember, that each person at the Thanksgiving table take a turn in letting everyone know what they are most thankful for. This year, I plan on saving all the good shit like, “The health of my family, still having a job […]

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