Rain
“Could be worse…could be raining…” – Young Frankenstein, 1974 (Igor to Frodrick while they are digging up the dead body that would become Young Frankenstein’s Monster – after which the...
Stay Gold, Pony Boy
I’m not an animal lover. I’m not an animal hater either. I’m more of an animal tolerator. Jules loves animals. And I love Jules. Which is the main reason I...
Mother Earth wants us gone – like now
There is a new age theory from the 1970s called the Gaia Principle. The basic idea is that the earth is a living organism that will adapt as it needs...
My Cousin Lorenzo
Spoke to my cousin Lorenzo yesterday. He lives in a little seashore town on the Adriatic called Senigallia. It has been a resort town since Roman times and still is...
Peaceful Warrior: The Doctor Who of Auburn Road Wines (and Our Favorite Oxymoron)
Try this story with a glass of our Peaceful Warrior red blend… We have already established in earlier stories that we like to give the wines stupid names and that...
The Argument Against Yoga – Without My Impurities, I Would Cease to Exist
Jules and I do yoga together almost every day. It’s funny, for two people who live and work together, we see remarkably little of each other. And that, of course,...
Dancing Naked in the Newly Planted Vineyard
When you become a farmer and begin working the land, something primal does begin to come out in you. Especially when those primal aspects have spent the majority of your...
Wonder What the Boys Will Tell their Therapists
We are heading off this weekend to go visit our older son, Luca, at college. We are really excited. It has been over two months since he left. He’s a...
Basil is Life, Ravello is Pizza, Rosemary is Religion
There is a lot to love about what we do. But it is some of the little routines that you might think would go unnoticed in the managed chaos of...