When I wrote Finding Myself in The Right Lane, About Two Years Later As I Look Back ~ Not Much Has Changed, I wrote it just before leaving for Puerto Rico for nine days. In Puerto Rico, I'm definitely on island time - my favorite time of all. While I was checking my Emails each [...]
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I got a great E-Mail when I launched the Oregon Pinot Gris press release; which I sent by US mail, as well as over the Internet. Today, George Rose of J Wines and I are the only two people that I know who are left to do so... And, it still gets results, I'm happy [...]
I'm in the middle of organizing a food and wine dinner for about 1,000 people. It's called Dark & Delicious and it's my sixth year in a row doing it. this year it's 60 wineries and 30 restaurant options. So, you can imagine that I can handle six to eight people, right? Yeah, I think [...]
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It's always fun to cast a glance over one's shoulder, to see what's happened and what's not materialized. I'm sharing the following, because I was asked if wineries would care about a new way to keep track of all their point of sales materials, and having worked for so many wineries and wine companies, I [...]
Organizing this wine and food event reminds me of the days when I was the Androscoggin Girl Scout Day Camp director. I chose to be a stay-at-home mother, after I put two columns on a piece of paper. One column was income, the other was expenses I'd have as a result of working outside of [...]
- Topics: Organizing
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On the back end of wine website Roulé Rogue, a blog for which I'm now writing , this was what the spam said as it laid there waiting for my approval. Now, understand how ridiculous this is; because, being an author on a blog is a backstage pass, perhaps even having the duty of approving [...]
Putting Some Sparkling in Your Step for New Year's Eve and Day ~ Ones that have delighted me in 2011
I've had a fabulous year with bubbles, and those are the ones I'm going to share as being HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for this coming weekend's celebrations. I'm going to start with a new one... I'm calling it a "Bubbly on Training Wheels." It's a great one for a younger generation that may also love adventure, innovation, [...]
- Topics: Recommended
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This was a comment on my story about organic wines: Jo, you are promulgating some awful myths... What follows is the The Primer & The Proper Response backup, because who can leave all of this below in a comment box? Let me just state first and foremost, I'm a product of the "Summer of Love." [...]
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Holiday Office Party If you're buying for the party, you don't have to skimp on quality when buying in quantity for the office party. How about a Caposaldo Prosecco? Or... If you're each bringing a wine, go for the bubbles, because it's so traditional, and this one is a great value. Bubbles inspired everyone to [...]
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I need to first write that I began this blog, and had it sitting in my scheduled blogs. I was going to be tasting the Malibu Oaks on a Monday, and when that Monday came along, my computer's motherboard fried itself. Yup... all of a sudden, nothing worked. I had about seven screens open, but [...]
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