You can lie or you can tell the truth. You can’t do both but you can do one or the other. There are people who pretend to do both. Their pretense is nothing more or less than a lie. At first, lying is easy and honesty seems like the impossible dream. Over time, lying gets...
June 28, 2018
A good liar works elements of truth into his lies. A great liar uses big lies to make his small lies more credible. These day, there are liars everywhere you go, even in the wine world. Why would anyone lie about wine? To sell you wines you don’t want. The good news?...
June 01, 2018
She told me her stories. She talked about her childhood, about the lies the adults told to the children and the pain the little girl experienced after she learned the truth. We drove back and forth across the country. Most of the time it was west to east and east to west but there...
April 01, 2018
There’s a ring around the moon with four stars inside the ring. That means it will rain during the next four days. A dog sleeps on his back. That means he trusts you. The prows of the fishing boats face the ocean. That means the tide’s coming in. A woman touches your hand while she...
February 01, 2018
In the glass, the 2009 Cristal is a ripe gold. Eight-year-old Champagnes are not supposed to be able to reconcile age with beauty, but this one does. If you’re the kind of person who likes to discover the ancient in the modern, and vice versa, the living color of the 2009 Cristal will send chills up and down your spine...
December 01, 2017
Dionysus stood at the end of the stone pier in Chios. He was watching the sky, the horizon, and the light on the water. He watched the pirate ship as it made its way into the bay. It was an old, solid ship with a black hull and a frayed white sail. There were twelve pirates on...
November 01, 2017
In prehistoric times, the line that connected people to each other was regarded as one of [...]
October 01, 2017
"Buy the mystery, sell the history” is one of the oldest of Wall Street’s old sayings. The traditional interpretation is that you should buy stocks when they’re widely misunderstood and sell them after they become [...]
September 01, 2017
He was lost. He’d been lost for years but had refused to admit it. Now he had no choice [...]
August 01, 2017
In this world, there are two kinds of relationships: the ones that get better and the ones that get worse. There are people out there—evil people—who will tell you there’s a third kind: the relationship that stays the same [...]
June 01, 2017
There’s this thing that bothers me. It’s been bothering me my whole life. I don’t know what to make of it or what to call it. That’s part of the problem. It won’t show its face [...]
April 01, 2017
