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Is there anything better than sharing a nice glass of wine with friends? The answer is definitely – the one thing better than that is...

It’s time for the final installment of my restaurant pet peeves blog series! It has felt really good to get all these pet peeves off my...

Wow! I’m surprising myself with how many restaurant pet peeves I actually have – who knew? Anyway, welcome to the fourth installment of...

20 years ago, this past weekend, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana which included a direct hit on the city of New Orleans. The...

It’s time for the third installment of my restaurant pet peeves blog series! In addition to general restaurant pet peeves and restaurant...

It’s time for more restaurant pet peeves, and I have a lot of them! This installment of “My Restaurant Pet Peeves” series will focus on...

OK everybody, it’s time to vent!! How many of you have gone to a nice restaurant and left feeling disappointed and let down by the...

Here we go again! Since my last restaurant review update in April, Laurie and I have visited seven new restaurants that have opened since...

This week Laurie and I are celebrating our 4 th  retirement anniversary! I thought this would be a good time to take a quick break from...

Our niece Sara, and her husband Andy came down to Sarasota to visit us a couple of weeks ago. What better way to celebrate their visit...

Last week’s blog covered the basics of blind wine tastings, and how to plan and host your own. This week, I’ll share my two most...

Do you think you could tell a Chardonnay from a Sauvignon Blanc without knowing which glass held which wine? How about a Pinot Noir from...

What if you could invite any four famous musicians, deceased or alive, to your dream dinner party? Who would you invite, and what would...

Laurie and I are having a difficult time keeping up with all the new restaurants opening in and around Sarasota – what a great problem to...

Most people believe there are no seasons in Florida, and all we have is hot, sunny, humid weather year-round – they couldn’t be more...

For this week’s blog I’ll continue sharing my thoughts on the absolute best and worst that Florida has to offer. Let’s talk weather,...

Florida is a wonderful, weird, fun, frightening, delightful, unpredictable and entirely unique place to live! And similar to every one of...

It’s past time for the next edition of “The Wines I’m Drinking Now” blog series! So, let’s dive in to talk about some of the absolute...

This past weekend encapsulates everything I absolutely love about living in Sarasota, FL!  Every January Sarasota hosts the Forks & Corks...

In last week’s blog I provided a short introduction to the wonderful world of whiskey, or whisky depending on your spelling preference!...