Drink Like the Dickens!

It's odd how smells can come back to you after years and years. Now and then I walk into a room and realize that it smells exactly like ...

You may remember from a previous entry that in Little Dorrit , a bishop gives a recipe for sherry flip and says that's a cure for depre...

Two of my favorite characters in Our Mutual Friend, Dickens's last completed novel, are Mortimer Lightwood and Eugene Wrayburn, a couple...

When I lived in Georgia, it was common to meet people who believed that no one questioned organized religion until about 1964. Now I think y...

Welp, I suppose it had to come to this sooner or later. I've come to a drink in which the main ingredient is "gruel." There ...

I spoke in the post about egg-hot how much I like Mr. Micawber, the suicidal bon vivant from David Copperfield . Micawber is dirt poor, i...

Sometimes I listen to Bob Dylan and wonder what future generations will know about him that we don't. After Dylan's eventual death, ...