Every year we go through the same thing. We make our lists of things we want to be different and the list of things we wish were different about ourselves. We start out the new year with the promise of new things and hope that this year will be different.

I despise the ordinary. As a child, I would day dream and play pretend all the time. I always hoped something incredible or extravagant would one day happen to me. In some twisted sense, I used to fantasize that something tragic would befall me. I…

Abandoned by her mother as a baby, now singing on TV. That would be enough to make for an incredible story of beating all odds. But throw in that her mother abandoned her was because she was born without arms, and despite her circumstances this 14-year-old girl learned to play the piano, now…

6/3/15

Summer is a great time for reviewing Chardonnay. I used to think I hated…

2/24/15

Years ago a humble Michigan distillery shocked the world of Bourbon fans with their Ravenswood Rye. Journeyman entered the ranks of my favorite whiskeys when I randomly discovered them on a trip back to Chicago, IL from Ann Arbor, MI. I stopped in there for a small…