“Four hundred empty acres that used to be my farm…”

by Katie Gomez January 6, 2012
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Sometimes, land must lay fallow. After it’s been plowed and harrowed, it must remain dormant…unsown…inactive…if it’s to restore its fertility. And sometimes, in an equally organic method, it simply needs to be covered with a healthy dose of crap. Only at the best and worst of times are you fortunate enough to witness both happening […]

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“I hope you have a good one, I hope momma gets her shoppin’ done…”

by Katie Gomez December 7, 2011
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I am a geek in so many different ways I’m no longer sure what gets a bigger rise out of me. One of the guys at work likes good beer, so I can often talk suds with him. He also happens to have broad tastes in music, so I know I can kibitz with him […]

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“Find someone who’s turning and you will come around…”

by Katie Gomez November 24, 2011
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While sitting in the doctor’s office waiting room yesterday, I started a conversation with the man across from me—he and I were the only two people there. After a couple of minutes of discussing our own health problems and why we were there, we began discussing our families and in the course of maybe five […]

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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: “Colors crash, collide…”

by Katie Gomez November 16, 2011
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“Cuz two out of three ain’t bad…”

by Katie Gomez November 11, 2011
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For some God-forsaken reason, a good chunk of the World’s population (oh, OK, let’s face it, I’m probably basing this on Twitter’s population more than the world’s) is wet with excitement that today is 11/11/11. I care about this phenomenon about as much as I cared last year on October 10th and I promise to […]

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“There’s whiskey in the jar, o…”

by Katie Gomez November 4, 2011
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A lot of the time that I’m on my soapbox, going on about beer or wine, I want you all to know I’ve usually got a rocks glass behind me, tucked just out of view. I’m certainly not nursing it on most given weeknights, but it’s there…with its perfectly shaped cubes of ice tinkling my […]

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“No one respects the flame quite like the fool who’s badly burned…”

by Katie Gomez October 15, 2011
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I’ve begun believing that for some reason Australians have a long-held love affair with mediocrity. I mean, England manages to give the world Amy Winehouse, Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox, and all Australia can crank out is Olivia Newton-John, Natalie Imbruglia and Kylie Minogue? Spain gives us Javier Bardém, Italy gives us Roberto Benigni, and […]

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“What if I say I will never surrender?…”

by Katie Gomez September 18, 2011
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I’ve mentioned more than once that there are a handful of importers I trust implicitly…importers whose wines I would buy based on their names alone gracing the back of a wine bottle. Names like Lynch, Skurnik, Rosenthal and Dressner hold that kind of weight in my world, though today I’m now living in that world […]

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“I’m a search-light soul they say, but I can’t see it in the night…”

by Katie Gomez September 10, 2011
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On Monday, August 29th I cried. Then I fell on black days and shut down…so did my writing. When Hurricane Irene hit Jersey we were pretty fortunate as these things go, getting no flooding or damage. All it did was leave us without power for nearly 4 days. So we packed up expensive perishables from […]

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“You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by. And so, become yourself, because the past is just a goodbye…”

by Katie Gomez August 19, 2011
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He was standing there looking at me with these eyes that were all at once expressing both complete conviction and sincere humility, trying desperately not to insult me. I had just told him I would let him know when my post went up and his somewhat hesitant but unflinching response was something like, “I appreciate […]

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