Memorial Day: War Dead, Cocktails, and Dr. Johnson
Memorial Day is more than cookouts and the beginning of summer. The day honors those who died defending our freedom and encourages us to reflect...
AI, Alice, and Way Out West
What AI, Alice In Wonderland, and the jazz saxophone share....
Batched Crime, Artichoked Cocktails, Bar Poem
Crime fiction. Artichokes. Thanksgiving poem about a bar....
Expert Queen, Nashville Crime, Fugitive Poet
Experts, crime fiction, drinks, poetry....
Memorial Day
Memorial Day weekend. War poem, summer vermouth, Carey Grant, and Tavares. ...
All Hallows’ Eve and A Michaelmas Cocktail
What, actually, scares us?...
One Thriller. Two Poems. Three Drinks.
One thriller, two poems, three drinks....
Good Friday and Easter Sunday
Good Friday and Easter....
Thanksgiving Cocktails, Truman Capote, Puritan Poetry
A few notes for your Thanksgiving: a holiday examination, Mumm champagne, an old-fashioned cocktail from Garden & Gun, the French 75 (its history and variants),...
Pill Mills, Poppy Flowers, Dead Poets and the Human Resources Department
Having been through a seven-week federal criminal “pill mill” trial, I think a lot about enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act and its effect on...