Love, Me

What a week! I'm included with so many awesome writers in this inaugural issue of The Cabochon Review... Check out my summer CNF (my first ever published CNF), Studs and Duds and Skee Ball... 😄

He walked into the old bar and found his ghosts already seated. Friends gone, stools taken by strangers who don’t know the rules. They don’t know who laughed here, who cried here, who paid for the last round. Sometimes memories are the only regulars left. dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/pr…

Here’s the thing about dive bars, they’re where time pretends to stop… right before it runs you over. Check out “Good Fellows” by Steen W. Rasmussen at dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/go…

Since then, I've never failed to properly appreciate every single bar that I've been to. Even the shitty ones.

Six years ago today, March 17, 2020, Saint Patrick's Day, was the start of the Covid shutdown(s). "Just two weeks to flatten the curve" lasted for almost two years!

Stay tuned. Thrilled to be aboard and in such company.

At some point someone decided that not wearing green on Saint Patrick’s Day justified physical punishment in the form of pinching, poking, or punching. This tradition appears to have been invented by elementary school children and adopted wholesale by adults who are dickheads.

DO NOT mix Category 5 rum, a squeeze of lime, Mountain Dew Voltage, & full spectrum Poncho's infused punch. Just don’t. It's anarchy & agony in a hurricane glass. No one has the upper hand… Check out MD Christenson’s latest at dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/do…

In this Pub, the pints are six bucks and nobody’s pretending to be interesting. Junkies, office workers, gamblers, poets, working girls, and a bartender who actually smiles. No dress code, no velvet rope. Nobody cares who you are. dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/in…

New Flash. Automatic For the People. Link in bio.

Happy #IrishWhiskeyDay. A day of reverence. A day of reflection. A day where we hoist a glass to you, dear golden elixir, and thank you for all the warmth, wisdom, and questionable decisions you've gifted us over the years. Cheers! dearbooze.com/drinking-matte…

Today is #MulledWine Day. Cloves, citrus, cheap red wine, and the crazy idea that heat can fix almost anything. Simmer it until the house smells like the way a greeting card looks. Then start sipping. What's left of Winter doesn’t stand a chance. dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/gl…

5 - 7 is church for the cooped-up. It's not for the blinged-out midnight crowd. These are work boots and name tags, beer-o’clock saints. Swivel stool, footrail, purse hook civilization. For two holy hours, gravity quits and we grow wings. dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/th…

Haven't been to #nola for two years. But, I'm tracking the path of destruction.