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Wine-tasting for writers

Today Rob and I hosted about fifteen writers for a wine-tasting. We tasted a variety of wines from top-shelf to rock-bottom. The idea was to learn how a wine snob would approach wine as opposed to a hard-nosed detective. I asked Rob to find some flawed wines as a contrast to the good ones. As

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Clearing the cellar

Rob has a collection of wine. The trouble with driving across the country in the summer is that the wine would bake in the moving truck. So, today we had guests over to help empty the cellar. The highlight of the evening, for me was his Domain Du Mas Blanc from Banyuls from 1977. (Rob

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New York Times

The article that I modeled for is out today. David Chelsea does the art for the Modern Love column at the NY Times and asked me to pose for this. It’s not my face; he morphed me with the author of the article. How My Plumber Turned Water Into Wine – New York Times I

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Wine Geeks in Action

I’m in the kitchen cooking. My husband is on the phone with his friend, Wayne. He says, “Yeah, we did some barrel tasting. They’re really slutty right now.” I stopped what I was doing. “Did you say ‘slutty?’” He drops the phone long enough to say, “Yeah. Like California wines. Big, cheap, flashy… you know,

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Wine geeks in action

My husband and his friend stand in the kitchen talking about wine. I’m typing and I hear his friend says, “It’s a little dumb on the nose.” This makes me laugh. It’s not quite as good as the time someone sniffed a glass, looked intently across the room and said, “I smell stress.” I wondered

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All Packed

I’m looking at my suitcase and wondering what security will think of it. For the monkey build, I’m taking my DeWalt radial sander, belt sander, three boxes of industrial hot glue and two shafts of nylon for milling parts. My other checked bag contains 8 bottles of Frameworks Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and a roll

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Guests arrive!

That’s right, you thought we had a full house before, but you’ve seen nothing. Chrissy and Spencer Ellsworth came down from Seattle today. We’ve had a great time hanging out, going to Powell’s and generally shooting the breeze. Christina and I have stayed up a wee bit late prepping for tomorrow. I’m having lunch for

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Sunny Day = Late Night

38,506 / 50,000(76.0%) 2446 words in two hours. I spent the day playing with Rob and stayed up ridiculously late to write. Well, and then I was also seduced by Captain Future and Danger Planet, which should really have an exclamation point in the title. First: In the center of the rocky ground, the earth

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Happy Fourth of July!

To celebrate, I thought I would share some pictures of my neighborhood back home. A friend took these a few days ago and sent them to me, I think as a way to tempt me back to Portland, OR. This is the cooperative organic grocery store that is three doors from our house. I miss

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Shopping

A nice relaxing day. I got up and went to have my haircut, then went grocery shopping with Rob and Wayne. Boy, are we showing him the highlights of Reykjavík or what? Oh! And I’m now going to write a sentence that I never thought I’d write. Rob bought wine in a box. That’s right.

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Another half-day

We only worked until two o’clock today and then we got to flee the studio. Sarah, Emily and I went downtown and sat outside at a cafe. We enjoyed frosty adult beverages and then walked by the lake, did some shopping and headed back to my house for dinner. I made bulgur with chiles and

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