#Drink

The Holidays, Part Two: A True Christmas

Over the years, I’ve come to enjoy “The Holiday Season” in so many different ways.  In my youth, we enjoyed the traditional Christmas at home with family and piles of presents and

Un café, s'il vous plaît

There is something intensely social about coffee: I remember an Arabic friend for whom I strived to make the perfect espresso, who told me the story of visits to his homeland, of drinking

Mysteries In Plain View

I’d never peg my mom as the “foodie” type: She starts each day with a Diet Coke, munches popcorn for dinner when my dad’s out of town, and thinks nothing of

Tawse vs. Toxins

Don’t try to convince me that pain is not a means of temptation.  My body says differently. In the last forty-eight hours, I’ve suffered such pain that I want only

Finding Wonderland

Duluth, Georgia has never really offered much in the way of nightspots, neither sixteen years ago when I was growing up nor today, with its great influx of Hispanic and Asian culture into

This New Year's Eve, Do It Wrong

I'm sure I would have hated this drink at some point in my life, the strongly bitter liquid with a finish reminiscent of that thick, nasty, red cough syrup that my