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This portion of Salon Saturday aired on November 4 and I later took a couple of Cromwell’s books with me to Hawaii. Patricia Cornwell is an author I’ve been hooked on for decades, and her medical examiner persona, Kay Scarpetta. If you read a fair amount you’ve...

Even though we’ve all had plenty of sparkling wines over the November/December holiday season, that doesn’t mean finding a new one to try has to wait until Valentine’s Day. This show, which aired before my long hiatus until mid-December, included an eye-opening...

This was the middle segment of the Salon Saturday radio show that aired on October 28. Even though I’d seen countless movies inspired by Shelley’s novel I had not read the original work. My source is a Penguin Classics novel with a forward by Shelley scholar,...

This show actually aired on October 21 and the Rhone white wines on October 28, but at least I got both uploaded . . . sigh! Anyway this show was about our first scary wine for Halloween, and an excuse to cover Chilean wines which are always on my radar and the one I...

In this segment of Salon Saturday we are considering wines that go with horror films based on Frankenstein. The first significant film was Frankenstein in 1931. Metascore gave a 91 rating to this classic horror film. Boris Karloff did not even get a credit for the...

This segment of Salon Saturday aired on the October 21 radio show. We are in October Country, which is one of my favorite Ray Bradbury novels and inspirations. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death,...

This is a segment of Salon Saturday that aired on October 21. I’m once again pairing wines and spirits to movies and no surprise; we’re covering werewolves, who, unlike vampires do drink wine. Usually with a side of meat, but still, who doesn’t like a thick juicy...

We are on the cusp of Halloween and a day before my own Halloween party, which follows Opera Southwest’s Bluebeard’s Castle. The wine for my monthly wine tasting at Albuquerque Country Club is Roussanne, a classic Rhone white grape so we’ll explore Rhone Valley white...

This was a segment of the October 14 Salon Saturday radio show. Since my first published novel, The Phoenix Society could be classified as a horror novel, and I mean that in a good way, I wanted to cover horror novels and authors that have influenced me and countless...

Well I didn’t expect to be this far behind in my blogs, but spending over a month in Hawaii and poor health in the reminder of December sure helped. All the same the wines of Loire Valley are timeless so forgive me as I try to catch up. Loire Regional Wines While I...