Living on an island - Alameda - in the San Francisco Bay brings with it many things:  a great group of friends, good elementary schools, a ...

Fall's coming, and your drinks should reflect that.  I mean, go right ahead and enjoy your Gin and Tonics in October, but when the leav...

Bad hair day doesn't begin to cut it, so I had to cut it.  I had Shirley-Temple curls, Alfalfa sprouts - I was a mess.  So much so, tha...

I've got a story for you about rum.  But I need a drink so I'll write it later.

Pauline's.  Have you been to Pauline's ?  It's on Park Street, just up from ye olde bookshoppe.  It's many thousands of squ...

In my office at ye olde bookshoppe there's a poster above the desk.  Ernest Hemingway looks down, impossibly young.  Not the bearded He...

Today was National Daiquiri Day, but you knew that.  Did you also know that daiquiri's don't have to come out of a Slushy machine? ...