Scotch Fall Extravaganza Coming to D.C., Philadelphia & LA!
Did you miss the recent whisky event in Los Angeles? Did my summary of the evening whet your appetite for sampling fine whiskies and meeting the people behind the dram? You still have a great chance to...
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Vampires, Whisky and Writing Give My Book a Kickstart
“Vampires. Kinky sex. I should have had vampires and kinky sex.” That was the thought that stumbled into my head around 3:30 this morning as I tossed and turned with the half-conscious gauziness that...
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Independence in Writing and Whisky
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden “Independent” has such a strong, rebellious connotation that burns beneath the word....
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Whiskey and Democracy: Let Your Voice Be Heard
President Barack Obama, descended from Kentucky whiskey makers. On this day, when we inaugurate Barack Obama to a second term as U.S. President, I’m going to take a little time to get all political...
View ArticleA Dram for Living Deeply
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” – Anais Nin I’ve loved that quote from the first time I heard it. The words express everything I feel about life and living: absorb it all, good and bad,...
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Robby O’ILL and the Little People
Durmod wiped the perspiration from his brow with a scrap of cloth that looked huge in his hand. His companions, Teig and Ronan, were equally as slathered in sweat. Though the 60 degree nighttime winter...
View ArticleThe Slog to Blog
“You don’t drink whisky?” Variations of that reaction have escaped my lips numerous times while meeting or interviewing people who work in the whisky industry. Not the brand ambassadors, of course....
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Making Time for Whisky and Writing
The malleability of time. That’s the title of a chapter in my new book, Distilling Rob: Manly Lies and Whisky Truths. The chapter deals with the passage of time and the perception of time, which are...
View ArticleTiming Is Everything in Whisky and Life
I just opened a bottle of 28 year old Scotch distilled at Glenglassaugh Distillery. A bottle I’ve held on to since I bought it in September of 2005 in a London whisky shop. It was distilled just before...
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Whisky Live from the Other Side
I once had a girlfriend who always snapped at me, tossed things at me or punched me whenever she saw me looking in a mirror. Or a window. Or a silver metal object. Apparently, at that point in my life...
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