
Girlfriends: life over 40 is great
Life over 40 is great for women. You’re not exactly young anymore, and that has some real advantages.
Life over 40 is great for women. You’re not exactly young anymore, and that has some real advantages.
By now there’s been plenty of media coverage of the technical and public relations disaster that is the new Yahoo! email. Under the guise of a makeover, Yahoo! gutted their [..]
I have only ever run one marathon, and in the cause of full disclosure, I didn’t run all that much of it. I did complete the whole enchilada, got the [..]
The Book of Taliesin is a late Middle Welsh version of the ales of Gwion Bach and Taliesin, mostly around the court of Maelgyn Gynedd. It was written in the 1550s, the same [..]
Every now and then, serious academic study trips over sheer delight. Thus it was I found the Beer Haiku website: a daily haiku submitted by readers. As near as I [..]
I have two friends slowly losing the battle against cancer right now, so it’s been on my mind. Like most life forms, cancer’s success is measured in its immediate propagation [..]
Thanksgiving was lovely, thank you for asking. Thinking over it, there is something I’ve never quite settled with myself comfortably. My aunt, who hosted, has been in AA successfully for so [..]
I have tons and tons to be grateful for – but why am I grateful for homebrewing? Some thoughts, not in any particular order: I’m grateful for almost all the people [..]
Hoo, boy, I think this riddle is hard! Again from the Exeter Codex Book of Riddles. Did these people do nothing but drink? A part of the earth is Prepared [..]
Today we have a Guest Riddler, known to me as Lady Tsura, guiding light of the Bright Hills Brewers Guild. She’s a brewer (damn fine cyser, I must say). Can you [..]
Historical Storyteller Thor Ewing posted this on his website back in 2002 – another supposedly from the Exeter Book, originally in Anglo-Saxon. I’m beginning to think its riddles are infinite, [..]
I float not on the tide, the tide floats in me. A geyser comes if I am wakened too soon, a veritable flood of good tidings Or else of ill, [..]