From a guest article at the Peachpit Website:
I love to read, but our small apartment doesn't have a lot of space. Many of my books are in storage. For the last two years, most of my reading has taken place on my iPad or iPhone. Fortunately, many apps for the iPad are designed for people who love books.
Read the rest here.
I've been writing about berries lately, of the variety known as Rubus. That includes Salmonberries, Thimbleberries, and yes, the invasive Blackberry. If I can get to the berries before the birds do, we'll need a larger freezer.
I've discovered that not only do I like small batch premium vodkas like Cold River vodka from Maine, and Koenig potato vodka from Idaho, I like some flavored vodkas, too. Principally, I like Three Olives Chocolate Vodka, quite a lot, though I prefer Godiva Chocolate vodka for drinking straight up and chilled, or as part of a fabulous chocolate martini.
As a Celticist, I have an abiding interest in Irish culture, and around March 17, so, apparently, does most of the United States. I've written a rant about Irish cultural myths, I've written about the true place of corned beef in terms of Irish culture, genuinely Irish food, like Irish Soda Bread, colcannon, Guinness, and Irish Whisky, and even Irish loan words in English, and the real nature of Leprechauns.
As a medievalist, it behooves me to cultivate an interest in mead, that beverage often compared to cider, but which is really honey wine. You can read about mead and my first encounter. I've also written reviews of Honey Moon Mead from Washington state, and Maine Mead Works mead, from, well, Maine.
I hadn't realized that coffee infused dark beers, especially porters and stout, are kind of a "thing" for beer drinkers, and coffee drinkers. I'd had Kona Pipeline Porter, and loved it, and liked it even more on tap. But recently, I tried Bridgeport Brewery's Café Negro Coffee Infused Porter.
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