Once upon a New Year’s Weary…

In a lot of traditions, the new year is an unruly time, a time to purge our world of all the accumulated flotsam and jetsam of the old year. We should prepare ourselves for the new dawn of a new year. So much for theory, it's rumination time for me. I can't control it. The …

Nostalgia

Nostalgia is a drink best sipped in tiny quantities. Toast significant anniversaries with it in those little glasses used for rare and expensive spirits. Too much imbibing of it makes you realize what seemed piquant was pungent. Nostalgia is one of the reasons I no longer drink; to damn easy to get nostalgic at two …