Category Archives: Drinking

A Walk To Bliss

July 26, 2021 – 8:49 pm

At dusk after a hard day’s work I walked to the closest packie in Hudson. There wasn’t a car in the parking lot. The bells of a nearby church rang five times. Five O’Clock. They can’t have close at 5 But it was a Monday Then I spotted a lit OPEN sign. I purchased a […]

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Half Full. Half Empty

April 15, 2021 – 1:26 pm

Who cares if the glass is half full or half empty if a full glass is waiting in the future?

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The Lent Of No Beer

February 17, 2021 – 9:58 am

Lent is the six-week period of Catholic fasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter, allowing the faithful the chance to atone for the previous year’s sins by mirroring the span of time the Messiah spend in the desert before He succumbed to the temptations not of Satan, but his own mortal flesh. While I’m a full-blown […]

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Belgium Beer Research

January 29, 2021 – 12:33 pm

My first beer was a Miller in 1965. I drank it behind Our Aunt of Jesus Catholic Church. Two more followed fast. The contents of the three bottles disagreed with my stomach and I spewed out the beer like a whale breaching the surface of the ocean. On the following Sunday the pastor, who looked […]

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Dominoes With A Chicken

November 9, 2020 – 2:21 am

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?” ― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

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