Are you indiscreet?

Recently, Grace witnessed a troubling series of events and thinking about them later, she came to believe that the essential nature... Continue

Please Forgive Me – I Am a Drunken Reprobate.

Happy New Year, dear readers!  By this time, we all have been to an average of three holiday parties since Thanksgiving and we have... Continue

Occupy the holidays!

Man, there is a lot to talk about these days!  Class warfare, the long-term prospects for capitalism, the newly retired, self-proclaimed... Continue

You’re great! You’re fired!

All relationships are predicated on some kind or combination of currency, either in the form of actual money and all it buys, or in... Continue

Putting the dog in its place

The dog is a lower life form. Sorry, but judging by brain size, earning power and lack of ability to comprehend quadratic equations,... Continue

Just stopping by to take all the dinner reservations and parking spaces?

A word to the traveller:  Just as when each Sonoma Valley resident ventures forth to San Francisco or Bilbao, the visitor to Sonoma... Continue

Dinnertime – and the living ain’t easy. . .

Okay people, here is your four hundredth reminder: how one behaves at the table matters, whether one dines alone (there may be a relevant... Continue

How inviting . . .

Putting aside for the moment that Sonoma is having March weather well into June, it is summer and so the season of invitations.  Engagements,... Continue

Now appearing at the center of the universe

Deep down inside, each of us knows that “it’s not all about” me.  For some, this reality can be shrugged off and he or she can... Continue

Shameless

Has everyone seen “Shameless” on Showtime?  Yes, it is cable and therefore permitted to be over the top – but really, even the... Continue