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Ten Days On
Monday, the 15th of December 2014
The Taliban are "our wayward brothers" who need to be talked into returning to the fold of the Great Islamic Republic.
Tuesday, the 16th of December 2014
11 am to 6 pm
Most of the day is spent in a haze. The horror is, to put it in the mildest way possible, overwhelming. More than 140 children have been butchered at the hands of a Jihadi organization that has been waging war against the State of Pakistan for near over a decade. There is no way to process this.
The eyewitness accounts start rolling in. Children were shot point blank. Teachers, in heroic attempts to save their students' lives, ended up burnt alive. Students stuffed their uniform ties into their mouths to not scream when shot. So they could play dead. Humanoid possums.
7 pm
The news media is irate at the attack. Montages of the horror are scored to dirges. A Dunya TV reporter is lambasting the Government for not hanging convicted terrorists because of what he assumes is greed for aid from the European Union. His newscaster angrily demands that he elaborate on the Government's greed.
The television is switched off.
Wednesday, the 17th of September 2014
Peshawar continues to bury her dead. An All Parties Conference is convened in Peshawar. The moratorium on the death penalty is lifted for terror convicts.
Bloodlust abounds.
Candles are lit.
Thursday, the 18th of December 2014
The political leadership declares there shall be no distinction between "good" and "bad" Taliban. All must be cleared. The scourge of religious terror is to be uprooted entirely.
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the 26/11 attacks in Bombay, is granted bail by an Anti-Terror Court.
Some terrorists may be more equal than others. Some terrorists are a good way to send a message.
A few brave individuals take their rage to Lal Masjid in Islamabad to excoriate its cleric for not condemning the Peshawar school attack. They are promptly threatened. Police in riot gear show up. They must protect the Lal Masjid.
Friday, the 19th of December 2014
Murmurs of Military Courts to try terrorism suspects start making the rounds.
FIRs are instantly lodged against the Lal Masjid protestors at the behest of a sectarian organization responsible for the murder of hundreds of Pakistani Shias. Seven are taken into custody.
A larger protest of hundreds assembles at Lal Masjid in the evening. It takes them more than 5 hours to get an FIR written up at the police station. No arrests are made.
Two convicted terrorists are hanged. One had been in custody and released four times in what is rumoured were hopes of flipping him as a double agent. He eventually masterminded the attack on Pakistan's military headquarters.
Some terrorists should pick their targets more carefully.
Saturday, the 20th of December 2014
A young man convicted at the age of 14 for involuntary manslaughter on the basis of a confession extracted after nine days of torture is to be executed.
His is not a case of terrorism.
Sunday, the 21st of December 2014
Four more convicted terrorists are hanged. They had conspired to assassinate then President General Pervez Musharraf.
No terrorist convicted of attacking a civilian target has been hanged yet.
Monday, the 22nd of December 2014
Did India do it? What about their consulates all over Afghanistan? And isn't that where Mullah Fazlullah resides now?
That must be it. India did it.
Tuesday, the 23rd of December 2014
The Lahore High Court ends the detention of Malik Ishaq, spiritual leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a sectarian terrorist organization responsible for the continuous murder of hundreds of Shias. Hazaras in Quetta. Doctors in Karachi. Pilgrims crossing into Iran.
The government didn't prosecute the case well enough, the court argued.
Maybe some terrorists are good? It's not like the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has the term 'Taliban' in its name.
Wednesday, the 24th of December 2014
We have military courts. To try civilians. There is some unease.
The Prime Minister tells us he will lead the war effort himself. We have been at war for ten years.
Thursday, the 25th of December 2014
Pakistan's Christian community holds muted celebrations of their holiest day out of respect for the victims of the Peshawar massacre.
A Christian couple had been burnt alive in a brick kiln by an angry mob of Muslims a few weeks prior on cooked up blasphemy charges.
Friday, the 26th of December 2014
#WeHateLiberalFascists is the top trend in the Pakistani Twitterverse.
The same liberals that advocated the State take on our "wayward brothers" instead of cajoling them. The same liberals who fought to get an arrest warrant against the only man in the country who refused to condemn the Peshawar massacre. The same liberals who resisted the process of Islamization and Jihad proliferation bestowed upon us by General Zia's regime.
The haters of Liberal Fascists (a term so meaningless it encompasses everyone from the principled and courageous Asma Jahangir to the execrable Ansar Abbasi) cannot wait to see them hanged too for daring to ask our military overlords some impertinent questions.
So they both must die. The wayward brothers; and the liberals that never saw them as such.


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I'd take that as a positive sign too.
Mine just released me back to my family doctor about 6 weeks ago.
Supposed to have a colonoscopy around March and next CT in September.
5 years is a big milestone, congratulations.
DarknessEmbraced wrote:My 5 year scans are on the 13th. I won't find out the results until I see my family doctor on the 21st.
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Dr. Peggy Chabrian
Dr. Chabrian is President and Founder of Women in Aviation, International. The organization was incorporated in 1994 as a result of the success of the annual International Women in Aviation Conference begun in 1990. The conference began with 150 participants in 1990 and had grown to over 1,600 by 1997. WAI represents women from all segments of the aviation industry including general, corporate, commercial and military.
A longtime aviation enthusiast and professional aviation educator, Dr. Chabrian is a 2,000 hour commercial/instrument multi-engine pilot and flight instructor who has been flying for over 15 years. Most recently she added a helicopter rating to her flight qualifications and has been an aircraft owner for many years.
Dr. Chabrian has held several top positions in aviation education including Academic Dean and Associate Vice President of Parks College; Dean of Academic Support for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Prescott, Arizona campus; Director of the Center of Excellence for Aviation/Space Education at ERAU's Daytona Beach campus; and Department Chair of the aviation department at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
The recipient of numerous aviation and education awards, Dr. Chabrian has received the FAA Administrator's Award for Excellence in Aviation Education and the Civic Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Dr. Chabrian is active in numerous aviation organizations and serves as a member of the board of the Experimental Aircraft Association's Aviation Foundation, the academic board of the International Civil Aviation University, the US Air and Trade Show board, and The 2003 Committee's board of directors. Dr. Chabrian is past president and board member of the University Aviation Association.
An international speaker, Dr. Chabrian has given numerous keynote and motivational presentations to hundreds of audiences. She has also authored numerous articles and authored an aviation management textbook.
Lt. Col. Karen Fuller Brannen
Lt. Col. Karen Fuller Brannen made history on October 17, 1997, when she became the U.S. Marine Corps first female strike fighter pilot to earn "wings of gold."
Others might have been surprised, but not Brannen. She says that if you'd asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up she would have replied with, "fighter pilot." The disbelief of others spurred her on.
In the spring of her fi nal year of college, Congress passed laws that resulted in women being eligible to fly in the Marine Corps. She applied for the Corps, passed the flight physical and went to training camp.
She attended Officer Candidate School in the summer of 1994, completing her studies as an honor graduate and receiving a physical training award. She was commissioned as a second lieutenant that year. In May 1996, after primary fl ight training, she was the first female Marine to receive a jet training slot. She completed intermediate jet training at Naval Air Station Meridian, in Meridian, Mississippi, fl ying the T-2C, and then went on to fl y the TA-4J with Training Squadron 7. She was the top graduate in her class, and was then selected to fl y the F/A-18 Hornet with a West Coast squadron. From there, with the call sign Stump, she was assigned to Fleet Replacement Squadron UMFAT-101 at El Toro, California, then subsequently Miramar, California.
In 2001 then Capt. Tribbett deployed with RMFA- 242 to Iwakuni, Japan. She earned her Air Combat Tactics Instructor certifi cation at the end of that year. After a stint in Quantico, Virginia in 2002 attending Expeditionary Warfare School she was assigned as an active duty officer to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 321 at Andrews Air Force Base. From there Maj. Tribbett was assigned to VR-1, where she flew C-37Bs, transporting the Secretary of the Navy, the Commandant of the Marine Corps and various Congressmen.
Maj. Tribbett left active duty for a job as a large cabin demonstration pilot for Gulfstream Aerospace in 2007. She remained a Marine Corps Reserve Lieutenant Colonel serving as the Officer in Charge of the Peacetime Wartime Support Team in Savannah, Georgia.
In 2010 she married Maj. Matt Brannen, a judge advocate in the Marine Corps.


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"We ain't tourist's honey — travelers, buy there or mail it back."
A friend of the Old Pirate.
Remember July 15 in National be a Dork Day.
Be a Dork, I know you can do it.
It was a lovely sunny warm morning when we left for Croatia. Our first stop, of course, was at Lucia's Petite Cafe for coffee, brioche, and hugs. For me, it was especially sad, since at my age I cannot know if I will be back again. I even hugged Danielle, Lucia's somewhat dissolute and shaggy boyfriend. Then we were off.
The drive to the border of Italy and Slovenia was relatively brief. We passed Trieste on the way, a surprisingly small city nestled among relatively gentle hills surrounding the bay and the Adriatic.
After a drive of not much more than a mile from the Slovenian border we reached its border with Croatia and passed through without incident. This portion of Croatia, Istria, had been part of Italy or some Italian City State since Roman times except for a period of Austro-Hungarian rule in the 18 and 19th Centuries but eventually passed to the old Yugoslavia after WWII.
After a brief drive through some low hills, we entered a low flat plain containing Mediterranean type forest vegetation and few people. According to Hank, Goldman Sachs plans to buy up just about everything it can get its hands on in this area, even its toll roads (one or more of the people we will be partying with over the next two days is [are] involved somehow). They want to make it into a tech hub for Europe like Silicon Valley (Facebook already is building a facility) and some sort of Adriatic vacation paradise. In the meantime, it remains someplace one would like to visit, easy going, pretty and slow moving.
Our first stop was at some Trulli type buildings. Actually our first two stops. Initially, we halted at the side of the road to view an abandoned Trulli. A road maintenance vehicle then appeared to see if we needed any assistance. After explaining that we stopped only so I could take a photograph of the abandoned building, the worker then offered to sell us truffles, olive oil, and grappa. Hank bought some truffles, I took some photos and we continued on our way.
A short time later we stopped at a place with considerably more of those buildings, in fact, the whole area was some sort of archeological park. Trulli-type buildings are conical stone buildings common throughout Europe in one form or another. They were built mostly in the 19th century as agriculture in Europe moved into less ideal areas because of rising demand. The buildings (and walls) were built from the stones taken out of the cleared lands. The most famous or at least picturesque of these are the large conical stone homes In Puglia, Italy. Since that portion of the trip had been jettisoned for logistical reasons, I felt that a photograph of me standing beside any like structure would be a satisfactory replacement.
Pookie and the Trulli in Croatia
We eventually arrived at our hotel near Pula. A nice little place not too far from the harbor where the ferry to the Island National Park disembarks.
Many stories I either heard, saw or experienced on this part of my trip — much too many to write about here but some of those I remember most vividly follow. Many were told by Hank. But, be aware, their veracity depends upon: the accuracy of my memory; may be affected by what I may have thought I had been told; my additions where I could not recall what I had been told; what for one reason or another I avoided; and whatever I have added in an effort to make the story more interesting, After all, isn't that what history is all about, a few truths surrounded by a lot of little lies and highlighted by a few big ones.
To pass the time on the drive, Hank told me the story of Paul Bingham who was Tennessee Williams lover at one time and lived at Hank's house and died there. Hank ended up with many of the letters that passed between Paul and Tennessee which he still has. He also told me about someone he called "Doc." Doc was one of Hank's professors at college. When Doc retired from teaching he also retired his suits and other clothing replacing them with bib overalls, tee shirts, and black work boots. With the time on his hands that often comes with retirement, Doc got involved in various dicey projects and would often persuade Hank to join him — apparently a not too difficult task. Projects like growing okra for profit. One time Doc went into the illegal fireworks business and blew up his house. Homeless, he moved in with Hank and stayed there until he died.
We arrived at our hotel, a pleasant little place not too far from Pula and near the warm where the boats depart for a national park located on an island a few hundred yards away. After checking in we left to visit our friends at Tito's old vacation estate.
We arrived at Marshal Tito's vacation estate in Pula on the Adriatic coast at a place called Volkane.
Tito's villa
Tito had the villa built to his specifications. He also had all the lands that could be seen from the Villa which were treeless, reforested — planting over a million trees in the area. Now that the trees have reached maturity some of the people in the area complain that the trees obstruct their view of the water and of the other trees.
The view from the terrace
At some point, Tito gifted the villa to his chief of intelligence. That spy's daughter lives there now with her husband an ex-marine officer who at one point had been an Assistant Under-secretary of Defense for the US by the name Jolly (he was the tallest man in the marines at the time and was nicknamed the Jolly Green Giant shortened to Jolly. He liked the name and it stuck.) He was a trained psychologist and was sent around the world to, as he put it to me, "Find out the truth."
The villa and part of the estate stand upon an old Nazi bunker one entrance of which remains. An ancient Roman wall surrounds part of the estate.
Every year on or around the 4th of July, Jolly and his wife hold a party for about two hundred of their nearest and dearest friends among which, due to Hank and Camille, I found myself included.
On my first day at Volkane, I met some of those that lived there, the sisters of the spy's daughter and other relatives and friends who visited during the day. I also stared a lot at the pleasant view of the Adriatic. The air was warm, full and restful. I walked several times through the gate onto the rocks by the water and along the shore to a bench where I would sit for a half hour or so after which I would make my way back.
In front of the villa, there was parked a large black Mercedes. I was told the Mercedes once belonged to Tito. It now belongs to an aging local rock star who lives in one of the three units the villa had been divided into after Tito's death. The name of the rock group was Atomic Shelter and had a bit of a reputation in eastern Europe.
Tito's wheels
A lot of time was spent telling stories. Mostly by Jolly about his life and times in the military and going and coming from some clandestine doings in some backwater somewhere, but never about the nature of the clandestine doings themselves. Most of the stories, I do not remember, or remember vaguely, his time in Thailand, his selection for his job or jobs and so on.
He told one about his great-great-grandfather, Christopher Sheats. Sheats from Winston County Alabama was one of the delegates to the convention of southerners who drafted the Articles of Succession that began the Civil War. He objected to secession but lost. Upon returning to Winston County he, at a meeting of Union sympathizers held in Looney's Tavern, a local meeting place and center of Pro-Union sentiment, declared the county a free state arguing that if states had an inalienable right to secede from the Union than counties have the same inalienable right to secede from a state. He called it the Free State of Winston and sought to join the Union. The Confederate State of Alabama arrested him and sentenced him to death by hanging as a traitor. The rope broke saving him. He was imprisoned and escaped, fought for the Union using freed slaves and, according to Jolly, never lost a battle. After the war, he served in Congress. Because of threats on his life, President Grant appointed him Ambassador to Finland. After he died, the county refused to bury him in the whites-only cemetery so he was buried in the Blacks-only cemetery with many black people attending the ceremony. Since then almost all members of the Sheats family have chosen to be buried in that same black cemetery. The Incident at Looney's Tavern, a musical drama performed regularly in Winston County, tells the story of Christopher Sheats and the Unionist meeting at Looney's Tavern. It is the official state outdoor musical drama of Alabama.
Another story I remember from lunch the following day — Jolly had been asked to serve as a chief judge in the court-martial of a women soldier who, when told her husband had taken a women into their bed while she was at the base, bought a 45, went home, and promptly shot he erring husband in the nuts.
The young military attorney from the Judge Advocate General's office chosen to prosecute her charged her only with assault with intent to kill. At the trial, when questioning her the young attorney asked, "Sergeant ___ when you shot your husband you intended to kill him did you not?" She pointed to a gold marksman medal on her uniform. " See this" she responded, "I won the pistol shooting competition at the Olympics and when I qualified as a marine marksman they gave me a gold marksman medal rather than the silver in honor of my Olympic victory. I assure you I intended to shoot him in the nuts. If I wanted him dead he would be dead." Jolly and the other judges ruled her innocent of the charge, stating, "The defendant may be guilty of many things regarding the shooting, but not of the only charge before us today, shooting with the intent to kill"
A few years later it happened that the sergeant was assigned to Jolly's unit. When he asked her about the trial she told him that, had she been charged with anything else, she would have pleaded guilty, but not to the charge of intent to kill. When Jolly inquired as to how she has been doing since then, she responded, "Pretty well sir, but it's been hard to get a date." (Note, I suspect Jolly made this one up because I seem to remember having heard tales like this before but who knows maybe those tales were about Jolly.)
We had lunch, with a small group on the terrace that day.
Lunch on the terrace
After the lunch, Hank told me a story about the sister of Jolly's wife, Mary (she is the blond woman second on the right in the photograph). When she was about three or four years old she had been captured by the Nazi's but released in a prisoner exchange. A year or two later she was trained by her parents to operate the clandestine radio transmitter that was secreted in a place too small to get into for anyone but her and thereby able to avoid the Nazi search teams.
The next day was Market Day in Pula, the streets were full of stalls selling whatever and everything. I could smell the aroma of freshly baked bread. The cafes, like the streets, were awash with people. The place seemed vibrant and alive as did many of the tourist cities in Italy when I first visited them 40 or 50 years ago. Now with prosperity, restoration, tourism, and the departure of the young to the largest cities they often appear dead, dying or mausoleums celebrating a culture that never existed. Cities are always becoming, a mixture of despair and of hope. When they don't change they die no matter how pretty they may appear.
I strolled through the town, drank prosecco in the cafes, browsed the stores and visited the port and the Roman ruins. There's a bitchin Roman Arena here also. It seems those Romans dropped them everywhere like rice at a wedding. When one considers the cost and turmoil surrounding the building of the relatively few large sports areas around the world today, the efforts of the Romans seem even more amazing.
The Amphitheater
The following evening was the big party. It was also the night of the World Cup match between Croatia and Russia. A large screen was set up so everyone could watch the game and eat hot dogs and hamburgers before the party began. There were many local notables including the head of Goldman Sachs for this area and much of adjacent Europe. I was told he was an ex-Mossad agent.
Now you must be wondering why and how over the last month or so I have managed to come upon so many ex-spies or relatives of ex-spies — Two in the Enchanted Forest; one who I met two days before in Sacile retired from the military whose job he said was to examine military construction sites in areas of American troop deployment; Jolly; his wife; and now the Mossad agent and god knows how many others were at the party. One must remember, however, all these people are from my generation and the following one. The generations who lived their productive years from the sixties through the eighties, the Spy vs Spy era when anyone who was anyone spied on someone or believed one lived under their bed or were entertained by stories about spies. It was the James Bond era.
Croatia won. The crowd went crazy.
Croatia scores
The music started. Everyone drank too much. I got kissed by two Young Croat women who I am positive either they only wanted to take a photograph of themselves kissing the old codger staggering around with the cane or they were drunk.
The next morning we left for Southern Italy and the rest of our trip.
We left Pula at about 8:30AM and drove south through Italy, getting lost only once until at 5PM we arrived at a surprisingly nice hotel with the improbable name of Hotel Gentiluomo just outside of Arezzo. It was owned by an Indian company and we shared the place with an Indian tour group all saried and caste marked up. While they ate various curries, the smells wafted through the hotel, we dined in good Italian fare that alas I have forgotten so I guess it was good but not particularly notable.
The next morning, we left and arrived at our hotel above the Bay of Naples early in the afternoon after becoming lost in those little towns south of Vesuvius that I have been getting lost in each time I have come here for the past fifty years. The marvelous and inexpensive Hotel Torre Barbara in Vico stands high on the bluff above the bay. We drank some prosecco while sitting on the veranda admiring the view of the volcano looming over the towns clinging to its slopes like barnacles on a ship's hull. Intending to swim in the pool with a view, I returned to my room but lost myself playing with my computer and dozing until dinner time.
Pookie with the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius in the background
On the veranda, I had dinner of shrimp risotto accompanied by prosecco and finished off with a chocolate mousse ice cream and grappa while we watched the sun sink into the sea beyond Capri and the lights\ come on and twinkle like a necklace of fireflies around the base of Vesuvius.
The following morning, I arose early and with my cup of cappuccino and a glass of fruit juice I sat alone on the veranda and watched the sun climb above the hills behind me and strike the bay. I tried to understand why in the many years I have been coming to Italy and having so rarely planned to visit Naples, I seem almost always to end up here for at least a day or so. Beautiful the view of the bay and the volcano may be but, I have seen many places more so —although while I sat there, I was hard-pressed to name them.
As I continued to stare at Vesuvius across the bay with its string of buildings encircling its base I began to think about how wretched those buildings and neighborhoods actually were. They began to look to me more and more like a disease creeping up the slopes — as though the volcano suffered from psoriasis and would wake up someday from the itching on his flanks and burn it all off. That's what Naples signifies, I thought, beauty and horror together — Pompey rich and licentious ending buried in lava, the Bourbon dynasty of the Kings of Naples, squalor, and corruption alongside elegance and art.
Caravaggio spent much of his career here in Naples. A drunkard and a vicious murderer and perhaps the greatest painter that ever lived. His painting of Narcissus gazing at his reflection in the pool of water is beautiful until you think about what the painting is about, someone imprisoned forever.
The next day we were on the road to Matera in the Province of Basilicata. The drive took only about three hours, a relief after the grind of the past few days.
After leaving the hills of Calabria, we drove through the weary plains of Basilicata. The approach to Matera left much to be desired. We passed from forested mountains and rolling hills green with vineyards, fruit trees, and vegetable gardens, onto a large undulating plain of dry farming almost all of it wheat leaving the land with a bare desolate desiccated look.
Here and there the plain was crisscrossed with steep stone canyons invisible until looking down on them from the bridges spanning them. On the top of a broad rise in the terrain stood a large city, much larger than the small hill towns we had seen in Calabria and Basilicata so far, and much uglier also. I was quite disappointed and contemplated urging Hank to turn the car around and retrace our tracks to Naples.
We checked into an attractive newly built hotel that seemed to have a swimming pool with stepped smaller pools cascading into it. Excited, I put on my swim trunks, strode through the lobby and out to the pool. Alas, when I got there I found it was only a decorative fountain built to serve as a background for photos of lavish nuptial celebrations that seemed to be the main reason for the existence of the hotel. Dejected, I changed back into touring clothing and we set off to the town to see what the travel brochures raved about.
After a lot of aimless driving about the modern town looking for the rock city, we parked and followed the signs and suddenly came upon the amazing city carved from the rocks and perched upon the largest of the steep stone canyons, the smaller versions of which we had crossed while driving here.
Matera — almost every building in the photograph of a facade covering the cave which provided at least 80% of the building's interior.
We decided then that we could not fully appreciate the city without a guide so Hank asked the driver of a small tuk-tuk style tour vehicle how we could find a guide, "Wait here for Vito" he advised. So, we waited there for Vito. While waiting, Camille and I explored a nearby church containing another church buried underneath containing fascinating frescoes on the walls.
The mosaics painted on the walls of the cave church.
And, one of the more bizarre statues I have ever come across.
The Saint who steps on naked fat women.
It is a statue of Saint something or other (I do not remember his name) with his foot on the back of a naked woman. Finding this odd, I moved closer in order to read the information card. I translated it as either Saint what's-his-name with his foot on a fat woman or, Saint whoever driving out fatness from women or maybe something else. Perhaps, he is the Patron Saint of diet scammers.
Vito arrived in his bitchin red tuk-tuk (as far as I could tell the only red one in town). He turned out to be a delightful young man who entertained us during the tour.
Vito and his bitchin red tuk-tuk with Hank and Camille.
(if you should travel there an want pleasant knowledgeable guide call Vito at +39 3931772506)
I could go on about the wonders of the town, but T&T is not the place for it. I will mention that Matera is the third oldest continuously occupied town in the world. Across the canyon stands the neolithic caves in which the ancestors of the townspeople lived before crossing the canyon to settle the current site when agricultural technology reached the area.
The Neolithic caves
Matera, despite being almost abandoned 30 years ago when the government forcibly relocated the penniless agricultural workers living in the rock homes, had experienced a rebound when that policy was abandoned and the original residents, artists, and others were allowed to move back in. Next year, according to Vito, the UN will declare the town the World Artistic Capital (or something pompous like that).
That evening we dined in what Vito declared was among the oldest and finest restaurants in town and was the favorite eating place of Mel Gibson who dined there often during the filming of the "Passion of Christ" (the crucifixion scene was filmed on top of the rock outcropping in the above photograph). While we felt that last was a dubious recommendation we dined there anyway and found it excellent and well worth it.
The next day we set off for Altamonte back in Calabria.
Altamonte a pleasant little hill town in Calabria, remote from just about anywhere with little to recommend it other than the Hotel Barbieri. Started by the patriarch of clan Barbieri a hotelier and master chef he has built up a small industry here and in the US selling regional Calabrian foods and folk art at the hotel and at a string of elegant delicatessens in Philadelphia and Pittsburg owned and operated by the family whose members have been sent to the US to manage their interests.
The view from my room.
The hotel started small on a hill with a great view of the town and the countryside around it, grew in a comely hodgepodge of rooms, verandas and a pool and a spa. Members of the family still run it day by day. "It serves the best Calabrian food in Italy," Hank claimed.
The pool and newly built terrace (we ate dinner on the terrace to the right)
We had a snack that included a local specialty, chips made from the local long red sweet peppers dipped momentarily in hot olive oil until they become puffed and brittle. Marvelous. We ate them and washed them down with prosecco under the trees on one of the verandas with a view of the town, a cool breeze and three children of the family playing and running around the tables.
Hank, the daughter of the Patriarch, Hank and a bowl of sweet pepper chips.
Camille and Hank on the terrace waiting for lunch.
I then took my much-delayed swim in the pool, napped and had dinner on one of the more formal terraces. We ate a variety of traditional Calabrian dishes and ended with a delicious homemade fusilli in a sauce of tomatoes and eggplant. The noodles are freshly hand rolled into long curving pasta with a hollow center and were delightfully chewy and went perfectly with the sauce. Grappa and dessert ended the meal. It was everything Hank said it would be.
First course
Second course
Fresh-made Fusilli
The next morning, after another great breakfast we said goodbye to the patriarch and his daughter who came by to see us off. And so I left for Sicily and a week ar Antonio's.
A. Today's Poem:
My remark in the previous issue of T&T about the possibility of my becoming a "geriatric Boy Toy" generated a few humorous comments such as Peter's "It sounds like an Asian food" and Ruth sending me her husband's poem which I have reproduced below.
The world is full of pretty boys
The aging ladies' favorite toys
If I were only twenty-two
I'd be some lady's toyboy, too.
But sad to say I'm eighty-eight
And I'm afraid it's just too late.
Bill Lansford ([c] William Douglas Lansford).
Alas, so true, so true — But is there still hope if you are only seventy-eight?
B. Giants of History: Peter responds to a challenge.
In the previous T&T, I hurled a challenge at Peter when I wrote:
I thought it was obvious my phone had been hacked in Verona. ("Hacked in Verona," a movie starring John Goodman as an aging, fat, inept, hacker hiding out in Verona because of his erroneous belief he was being hunted by the police of several nations. Frances McDormand plays the Interpol receptionist dedicated to tracking him down to let him know that, in fact, no one was looking for him. She locates him in a one-room attic apartment two doors away from the "Juliet" house. They fall in love and she moves into the apartment. The film was so successful that its two stars were contracted to appear in its sequel, "Malaise in Verona." — OK Peter the ball is in your court.)
He accepted the challenge and in a heroic effort flung back at me the following:
Sequels uber alleles. "Godfather" etc., "Rocky" etc., "Peewee's Great Adventure", etc. "Malaise in Verona"– bathos with mandolins. Saving grace: Monica Vitti, Anna Magnani, Giulletta Messina, and Sophia Lauren star as the Four Horsewomen of the Apocalypse. Our intrepid heroes Goodman and McDormand, wallowing in humid solicitude and a decent spaghetti sauce in a Verona pension, are interrupted by the Fab Four [who are aware of course that no one is looking for Goodman – after all, why would they?] who present the lucky couple with a dilemma: Why stay in Verona when you could be in Ravenna? The two are completely flummoxed by this question. Camera closeup: they look at each other, McDormand says "Why Indeed?" Goodman counters: "BFD- we could be in Ravello." McDormand: "No. Puglia. The olives are better." The four horsewomen interject: "Have you made up your minds?" Goodman: "Who are you, and where is that masked man?" The 4: "Chasing after Tonto. Last seen in Parma. The ham is good there. As to who we are, only Fellini knows for sure. You needn't bother yourselves." "Oh", say the humid duo. "And anyway, Ravenna, Ravello, what's the difference?" The 4: "We hate people who wave Occam's razor around indiscriminately. In any case, Lucretius and Sartre are staring you in the face: which shall it be: Osso bucco con barbera or authenticity and rye crisp?" And that's why they made Godfather III.
I concede.
"Most cities lived on the very edge of civilization. Everyone talked about towns and villages out in the middle of nowhere as if they were uncivilized, but she'd found people in those places pleasant, even-tempered, and comfortable with their quieter way of life. Not in cities. Cities balanced on the edge of sustainability, always one step from starvation. When you pressed so many people together, their cultures, ideas, and stenches rubbed off on one another. The result wasn't civilization. It was contained chaos, pressurized, bottled up so it couldn't escape. There was a tension to cities. You could breathe it, feel it in every step."
Sanderson, Brandon. Oathbringer: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive (p. 629). Tom Doherty Associates.


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And so it begins. We spent the weekend tilling, weeding, picking up a load of compost (above) and spreading it over our garden beds. All motivated by the anticipation of the sweet taste of homegrown tomatoes in (fingers crossed) August, along with a (again, fingers crossed) bountiful harvest of carrots, peas, greens, herbs and squash.
The beds with tarragon, miner's lettuce and thyme from last year. Rhubarb anchors the strip behind.
We decided that with its full southern exposure, the strip behind the raised beds—in their sixth planting season and still going strong—would be the perfect place for some blueberries. Peas will be growing up the chain link fence behind them, to be followed by beans when the peas are done. The fence not only provides a great climbing structure for the twisty vines, but makes an edible screen between the back yard and the sidewalk.
The parking strip where the tomatoes will live.
I know, I know, it's all sounding pretty pie-in-the-sky right now, but that's just what an expanse of darkly rich, ready-to-be-planted soil does to me. So until reality intrudes, forgive me while I put on my rose-colored glasses and dream.


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I got this email from Isabel last week. (Sorry to say it has taken me until now to get this ready to post.) Next week I hope to post something about her mother's 90th birthday party. So much has happened in Chile since Isabel has been visiting there…This is a highlight of her trip:
Hi Sarah
Today I went with Lori (the Executive Director of the Isabel Allende Foundation and Isabel's Daughter in Law) to visit one of our Foundation´s pet projects: Un Techo para mi País. It means Roofs for our Country, but I am afraid the soul is lost in translation. Please check it out. You won´t believe what these young people are doing:
Techos was founded in the late nineties by a charismatic priest, Felipe Berríos, who wanted to build houses for the poor. He probably never imagined that his dream would catch fire and in little more than a decade the organization would eliminate the slums in Chile. The devastating earthquake in February left thousands of people homeless. In just four months, however, Un Techo built more than 24,000 emergency houses. Nowadays Felipe Berrios is working in Burundi among the poorest of the poor, while another priest, Cristián del Campo, has taken his place. (What is it about the Jesuits that they recruit so many handsome dudes?) Un Techo has grown and expanded; now it operates in 19 Latin American countries, with hundreds of professionals and more than 200,000 volunteers, mostly students. The main cause of poverty in Latin America is not lack of resources but injustice: few people have too much and many people have too little.
Un Techo para mi País is solving the housing problem for millions of people. It empowers homeowners, builds communities, and also offers young students—who will eventually be in government and public service—the opportunity to learn about the hidden reality of their countries. Most of us, especially the young, want to do good, to serve, to help, but are too busy or too lazy to pay attention to that longing in our hearts. I was blown away by the energy, passion, commitment, and joy of those young people, not to mention the fabulous work they are doing. I wish I were 50 years younger! And I wonder why on earth my own grandchildren are not working with a hammer and a saw in some remote village, instead of texting about the hotdog they had for lunch.
Love Isabel
This photo above shows number of temporary houses built for the homeless. 33,000 of the 57,503 built in Chile were built in 3 months after the earthquake. All by volunteers!
|Marisol Alarcon, Isabel Allende and Cristián del Campo
This is Luis Ortiz. He was so pleased to be able to give Isabel HIS book instead of vice versa–it's an amazing project he created.


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At the Sunshine Harvester Works in South Australia, the factory is busy making its contribution to the Australian war effort, as reported today in the Melbourne "Argus":
Over a four week period, the factory produced 200 wagons, 23 ambulances and 150 water carts for the Australian Expeditionary Forces. Additional axles were created at Sunshine Harvester Works when those ordered from Sydney and Adelaide were insufficient. This was the first time that the factory had produced wagons. Proud of this achievement, McKay exhibited a sample wagon and water cart at the Melbourne Showgrounds in September 1914. The Argus praised the quality of the machinery produced by the factory. The ambulances were described as being 'very elaborate' as they were 'fitted with all conveniences in the way of medical appliances', while the water carts could carry 150 gallons. Similarly, the general service wagons were 'sturdily built' and included updated features such as two brakes and 'special swingletrees encased in steel' [museumvictoria.com.au]
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November 30, 2010
Chevy ChasePosted by olagill under Actor | Tags: Chevy Chase |
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November 30, 2010
Annie Lennox & Al Green – Put A Little Love In Your HeartPosted by olagill under Music, Music Videos
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November 30, 2010
Top 5 X-Mas MoviesPosted by olagill under Film
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Tomorrow is december the 1st and we are entering the month of Christmas. About time to name the 5 best Christmas movies to put you in the mood…
1. Bad Santa (2003)
The miserable conman Willie (Billy Bob Thornton) and his partner Marcus (Tony Cox) pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores during the Christmas season. They run however into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot. This is just so far out there and dark in a funny way set in a Christmas environment. Great performances from Billy Bob Thornton and an always beautiful Lauren Graham.
2. It´s A Wonderful Life (1946)
An angel helps the compassionate, but despairingly frustrated businessman George Bailey (James Stewart) by showing what life would have been like if he never existed. Frank Capra´s Christmas classic is a beautiful film showing us how each one of us has a place in life and earth.
3. Scrooged (1988)
The cynically selfish TV executive Frank Cross (Bill Murray) gets haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve. Charles Dickens classic novel "A Christmas Carol " in a modern setting is a brilliant Bill Murray one man show vehicle. Nice performances from Bobcat Goldthwait and the underrated Karen Allen. I know it by heart after having seen it several times and I still love watching it. The movie had a great title track in Annie Lennox and Al Green´s "Put A Little Love In Your Heart". Another take on the meaning of showing your humanity and giving spirit during the Christmas season.
4. Die Hard (1988)
The New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they are holding hostages including McClane´s wife in an LA office building during Christmas Eve. Bruce Willis major breakthrough movie and what a movie! I still love this excellent actionmovie. Alan Rickman is doing the role of his life as the terrorist leader Hans Gruber together with his righthand Karl Vreski (a brilliant Alexander Godunov). Bruce Willis best movie for sure.
5. National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (1989)
The Griswold´s plans for a big family Christmas turns into a big disaster. The third installment with Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) and this family during the Christmas holidays is a classic you can see over and over. A solid laughing riot.
November 29, 2010
Letterpress Exhibition: Reverting To TypePosted by olagill under Exhibition, Typography | Tags: Reverting To Type |
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"Reverting To Type" opens next week at London's Standpoint Gallery and will feature new work by a host of letterpress practitioners from around the world, including Black Stone Press (Canada), IMPO$T (Australia), Prensa La Libertad (Argentina), Yee Haw! Industries (USA), and London-based Mr Smith (the star of our latest CRTV studio-visit film).
The exhibition has been curated by Graham Bignell of New North Press and Graphic Designer Richard Ardagh. Besides featuring prints and publications by letterpress print practitioners from around the world, New North Press has also approached a number of artists, designers and writers – including Catherine Dixon, David Pearson, Phil Baines and Vikram Seth – to collaborate with them to create new work. "Reverting to Type aims to highlight the pioneers at the helm of the current resurgence of interest in letterpress," says Ardagh of the show, "from computer-based designers with a desire to ply a craft with a tactile immediacy that has been lost with modern technology, to traditional presses finding new ways to revitalise their design output."The full list of contributors reads thus: Black Stone Press (Canada), Brad Vetter (USA), Carl Middleton (UK), Dafi Kühne (Switzerland), Flowers&Fleurons (UK), Hand & Eye (UK), Hatch Show Print (USA), Hi-Artz Press (UK), IMPO$T (Australia), Jens Jørgen Hansen (Denmark), Markus Müller (Switzerland), Mark Pavey (UK), Mr Smith (UK), Occasional Print Club (UK), Prensa La Libertad (Argentina), Rosa De Carlo (UK), Team Nerd (USA), Typoretum (UK), Yee Haw! Industries (USA)
And the full list of collaborators New North Press invited to produce work with them on prints looks like this: Catherine Dixon, David Pearson, Fraser Muggeridge Studio, OPX design, Peter Aston Jones (artist), Phil Baines, Stevey Scullion (sculptor), Vikram Seth (author of A Suitable Boy). (via Creative Review)
November 29, 2010
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Photographer, music video director, musician and former partner at design company Hipgnosis, Peter Christopherson, sadly passed away on Wednesday in his home in Bangkok, Thailand, aged 55. Leeds-born Christopherson, who was affectionately known as Sleazy, is probably best known as a member of the band Throbbing Gristle, although before his musical career, he was a commercial artist, designer and photographer. He was a partner at Hipgnosis – he joined Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell as an assistant in the mid 70s, becoming a full partner in 1980 and contributed to the design and artwork of several Hipgnosis covers including "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd and he is credited with the sole art direction of Peter Gabriel's first three LPs.
"Peter had a habit of surprising Storm and me with his particular outlook on life," recalls Hipgnosis' Aubrey Powell in the 2008 book "For The Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis". "Hipgnosis were once asked to design a cover for Paul McCartney for his album Tug Of War," he continues. "You couldn't find a more conservative fellow in the album cover department than Paul McCartney yet, knowing this, Peter presented a picture, beautifully crafted, of a man hanging himself, surrounded in gold leaf, in the style of Gustav Klimt. Paul said politely, "Just not my image." Pity, as it would have been a brave move. I think I got a bit of stick too, for being audacious enough to show that idea to Paul."
As a freelance photographer, Christopherson took the first promo photographs of the Sex Pistols in 1976 – and in 1977 he created a highly controversial window display for Malcolm McClaren and Vivienne Westwood's King's Road clothing boutique, SEX. He also designed the logo of fashion label BOY.
And as a music video director he shot well over 40 promos for the likes of Nine Inch nails, Paul McCartney, 10cc Erasure, The The, Van Halen, Jah Wobble, Sepultura, Robert Plant, Rage Against The Machine, Rollins Band and Björn Again. (via Creative Review)
November 29, 2010
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Irvin Kershner, best known for directing the second and excellent Star Wars movie "The Empire Strikes Back", the James Bond movie "Never Say Never Again" and "RoboCop II", has passed away at the age of 87.
November 28, 2010
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November 28, 2010
Ghostbusters IIIPosted by olagill under Film | Tags: Ghostbusters III |
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Dan Aykroyd recently confirmed some casting news via an interview on WGN Radio Chicago. Aykroyd admitted that Bill Hader and Anna Faris have been mentioned as strong possibilities, although apparently nothing is close to official yet. The Ghostbusters writer and actor also brought up Eliza Dushku's (Buffy, Dollhouse) name. Aykroyd also apparently confirmed the long-running, on-and-off rumour that Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver will be returning. (via Total Film)
November 28, 2010
Twin Peaks – Where Are They NowPosted by olagill under Actor, Actress, Television | Tags: Twin Peaks |
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I've known Harley for a couple years now and we've had the privilege of working on many weddings together. Our goal; making our bride's wedding day as perfect as possible! You see Harley works for a local wedding planner, Cassie with Southern Fete. Now the tables have turned and it's Harley's turn to be the bride, and what a gorgeous bride she'll make! Since Harley has seen so many weddings she wanted something different for her own. Sooo in March we are heading to….wait for it…. MEXICO! YAY! A destination wedding is always a great choice. Since she'll have an international flare for their wedding day she wanted something true to her southern roots for the engagement session. Harley's dad is a local farmer and Cody works with him. How fitting that we shot in a southern plantation then afterwards in the cane fields that her family harvest. Harley wins the "fashionista" award! We were able to fit in 4 outfits in the two hour session. Aren't they awesome! Here's some of my favorites from the shoot.


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DiLibero then brought out tiny acupuncture needles, which were gently inserted into my forehead, cheeks, and other areas on my face. The process was completely painless, and her gentle hand and calming presence made me feel totally relaxed. "The needles are strategically placed to help boost energy and circulation; stimulate collagen formation; improve complexion; and also treat physiological imbalances at the same time, such as allergies, clenched jaws, anxiety, and headaches," says DiLibero. After all the needles were inserted, I lay on the table under a space-age looking professional LED light system (which helps reduce inflammation and treat skin) and listened to a relaxing, transportive meditation. I felt amazing at the end of the session and couldn't believe how glowing and clear my skin looked for days afterward. It felt like a total mind-body healing experience. When it comes to brides prepping for their wedding, DiLibero is an expert. "The treatments build on each other, so getting monthly aculectrics sessions leading up to the wedding will help you better weather the storm of all the stressors that come with planning a wedding," she says. "Because the sessions are noninvasive, it's usually safe to perform them up to the day of the wedding so that a bride looks and feels their best on the big day." Working from the outside in, this treatment is above and beyond a traditional facial; it's truly next level. —Kate Donovan, Style Director
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In addition to being a longtime makeup and grooming artist in the fashion industry, Candice Forness is a fourth-generation healer, a Reiki master, and certified energy healer. Her Ayurvedic facial massage is a process that combines acupressure, lymphatic drainage, and Candice's special energetic touch. "My treatment taps into the body on a cellular level, lowering blood pressure and heart rate and releasing dopamine and serotonin," explains Forness. "It actually helps to recalibrate the system, and actually trains the body to relax and heal itself." I lay back on a comfy table at Shen Beauty in Brooklyn (the beauty shop and treatment center with a cult following), and Forness started the session by smoothing a divinely-scented Mae Lindstrom balm on my face. I began to settle into the table and soon enough, I was completely transported to another realm. She systematically massaged my face with calculated strokes to increase lymphatic drainage and promote relaxation. At a halfway point in the session, Forness took out a mirror and revealed the difference between the side of my face that she had worked on and the side that was still in stress-land. "Half of your face is on vacation in Bali, and the other is still at the airport waiting," Forness quipped. It was incredible to see how lifted, toned, and smooth my face was at the end of the treatment. And my entire body was relaxed and restored, like I'd had the best night of sleep. I felt, as Forness explained to me, "lifted up—mind, body, and spirit". —Kate Donovan, Style Director
Medicine Reading by Deborah Hanekamp
Deborah Hanekamp is a modern-day seeress whose journey through shamanism and healing work has led her to develop her own signature offering called medicine readings. When I stepped into her gorgeous, light-filled SoHo loft, I instantly felt more grounded and at ease. Hanekamp starts with an aura reading (mine was bright blue) and a conversation about what was coming up right now in my life. Then I lay down on a heated table lined with a crystal-filled Biomat, which is said to promote whole body relaxation. Hanekamp then began her bespoke healing ritual comprised of energy balancing and special songs to help cleanse and protect. "A medicine reading is a great way to align your intentions for this next phase of your life" explained Deborah. "What are you leaving behind in your single life? What are you calling for in your marriage?" At the end of each session, Deborah prescribes a custom ritual bath (which can include anything from crystals and essential oils to salts and fresh herbs) that you can do at home. —Kate Donovan, Style Director
Tokyo Treatment at David Mallett
David Mallett is known for being an innovator in the hair-care world, with devotees ranging from Nina Dobrev to Jessica Biel to Natalie Portman. The Australian coiffeur, whose salons until recently could only be found in Paris, opened his first New York City salon in October. It's there you will find the only stylists in the United States that are able to offer the miracle Tokyo treatment, also known as the "hair facial." The four-step deep treatment is customized to your hair type, and repairs chemical and environmental damage to rebuild hair from the inside. It won't change the texture or color of your hair—your locks are basically returned to how healthy they were when you were born. Each step targets a different layer of the hair using different combinations of molecules—there are six kinds of keratins and amino acids, and fullerene, a molecule that can penetrate the hair without the use of heat. Anthony Deliperi, one of Mallett's most trusted colorists (he's responsible for Emma Watson's tresses) and all around delightful human (he will undoubtedly call you "darling" several times during the process), takes you through the 30-minute treatment.
The first step: a spray to open up the pores of your hair so it can absorb the treatment. Step two: Deliperi coats the hair with product, using a kind of slapping technique—it creates a vibration so the product can seriously saturate your strands. Step three: Steam! Your hair is covered in a mushroom-like cap to steam for around 10 to 15 minutes while the products penetrate the hair. Final step: more slapping to make sure all the product has been absorbed, followed by a shampoo and conditioner. While the treatment is meant to be repeated every four to six weeks, I could see (and feel) the results immediately. I could go longer between shampoos (meaning less heat styling) and my color-treated hair felt downright bouncy and full. It's been about four weeks since my treatment and I am still reaping the benefits. You can bet I'll be getting my hair slapped again soon! —Aviel Kanter
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Head Spa at Masa Kanai
For the bride really on the hunt for serious relaxation and pampering, look no further than Masa Kanai salon's Head Spa. A Japanese technique that builds on Indian Ayurvedic massage, the head spa offers more than just a simple head massage—the treatment combines shiatsu massage, scalp renewal, detoxification, deep cleansing, and aromatherapy. You'll start with a quick consultation about your hair and scalp health; they'll use a microscopic camera on your scalp so you can see any irritation and buildup. Based on what appears on screen, the treatment will be tailored to your scalp's needs—purifying (to moisturize and soothe dryness and dandruff), soothing (an anti-inflammatory process to reduce itchiness), rebalancing (for oily hair and scalp), or a revitalizing and reinforcing hair that is prone to falling out. You'll start with a detox treatment made from 100 percent biodynamic essential oils and Amazonian pink clay for a natural cleanse. Then it's time to steam (it opens the pores to remove build up from chemicals and other debris). Next is a shiatsu massage for the head and neck, which was truly the best thing that's ever happened to me. Pro tip: Add on a foot massage for dual-action relaxation. Finally, a deep conditioning treatment followed by a hot towel wrap and application of protecting tonics. Add-ons I would recommend: the Tansan carbonated bath. Carbonated water rebalances the hair's pH levels (which get thrown off by chemical treatments and everyday products) to leave the hair extremely soft and silky. Plus, it cleanses even deeper than regular water to remove all the buildup on your scalp—you'll get to see all the gunk that came out in a cup after your treatment! —Aviel Kanter


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I'm Jayme Henderson, and I am a farmer and winemaker for The Storm Cellar, a winery in western Colorado. I also write the blog, holly & flora, a space where I share my recipes for botanically inspired cocktails, tasting notes and wine pairings from my viewpoint as a certified sommelier, and stories from my life both here at the Redstone vineyard and from my travels abroad.
If you're interested in finding inspiration to live a more creative and vibrant life, increasing your wine knowledge, and learning how to craft cocktails based upon the seasonality of ingredients, you're in the right place. I also enjoy telling the stories behind the wine and behind the cocktails. You hear the word, terroir, tossed around a lot. To me, it is a reflection of place. I like to connect the people, place, and history to the stories I share here.
It's terroir-driven storytelling.
I tend to keep it pretty casual here, sharing what's going on in my life, my kitchen, my garden, the vineyard, and the winery. I live in a renovated farmhouse in the small town of Hotchkiss, where I live and work on a vineyard with my fiancé, Steve. Two years ago, we made a bold move and left long careers in the Denver restaurant industry and now farm 15 acres of vinifera grapes. We work the land, nurture our grapes, and make wines. Together. We are releasing our first vintage of high-elevation white wines and rosés this spring under our label, The Storm Cellar.
We couldn't be more excited!!
Although I often get addressed as "Holly" in social media and emails, my name is Jayme, and holly & flora has an entirely different meaning. For years, Steve and I lived at the corner of Holly Street and Flora Place in the University Hills neighborhood in Denver. The blog started out as a creative outlet for me, a documentation of life at our house, our backyard urban garden, and the preserving and DIY projects I'd routinely make. I'm talking citrus scrubs, preserves made with local peaches, natural lip balm, and dried herb blends made from our garden.
My topics were all over the place!
Even though holly & flora is still a documentation of my activities, it's now my journal for all-things related to drinks. While I focus primarily on culinary-inspired cocktails, I also share a lot about wine, both from a sommelier's and a winemaker's perspective. You can also find a lot of DIY projects such as bitters, infusions, liqueurs, shrubs, and syrups here on the site.
I believe in living a creative life, pushing boundaries, exploring new ideas, challenging myself in the kitchen, and keeping things simple and pure. And fun. Steve and I love the challenge of using what we have on hand or what our land and our neighboring farmers provide us. We have adopted a "zero waste" mentality both in our kitchen and behind the bar. This means using up all parts of a fruit or vegetable, lessening food waste and expanding our enjoyment factor.
Take a lemon, for example. Instead of simply juicing a lemon and discarding the peels, I zest the lemon for citrus salt, or I use the lemon peels for cocktail bitters, limoncello, or a citrus body scrub.
You can follow along with my Instagram posts on decreasing food waste, upcycling produce, and dusting off forgotten bottles with the hashtags, #DRINKINGBYTHESEASON and #BACKBARFORAGING!
Although I have always enjoyed a well-made cocktail, my love for craft cocktails began with my tenure at Barolo Grill in Denver. Although I was limited in my creativity there, I learned about amari, had my first taste of Fernet, commenced my spritz addiction, and even got inspired to craft my own limoncello. From there, I became the bar manager at Coohills and got to create my own beverage menu. The challenge stretched me creatively. I loved making my own syrups and bitters. I loved layering flavors. And I loved the pace.
Even though I was a certified sommelier during those bartending gigs, I was more focused on making drinks. When I began working as a full-time sommelier, I missed the creativity of MAKING something. I loved curating a wine list, but I felt somewhat like a DJ — I became well-versed in someone else's product. I then began to focus on making cocktails here on the blog. It was something that I had control over the taste, aromas, texture, and design. It was my creative outlet.
I am a seventh generation Floridian and grew up in Lakeland, a medium-sized town just south of Orlando. My sister, Heather, and I grew up making homemade meals on a nightly basis with our mom. Our kitchen was the heart of our home, and it's where we learned how to cook and how to show hospitality. My dad taught me how to sail, how to fish, and how to appreciate Cajun food. He also introduced me to the music of Roy Orbison.
My family means the WORLD to me.
My love of gardening began, crazily enough, with a packet of seeds that I got in a kids meal at Burger King. I wish kids would get that in their meals today! I grew my very first green bell pepper plant from those seeds, and gardening has continued to play a large role in my life. My grandfather and his dad were orange growers in DeSoto County, Florida, and I am happy to continue the family farming tradition.
While I truly enjoy stretching my creative limits and making complex, wild cocktails, my go-to is sparkling wine. In fact, I would drink it every day if I could. My favorite domestic sparkler is Schramsberg Brut Rosé, my favorite value bubbly is Gruet's Domaine St. Vincent Brut, and my splurge is anything from the Champagne producer, Jacques Selosse.
I also get asked which wine was the catalyst for further wine study. The wine that started it all. While I can't pinpoint an exact bottle, I can say that an experience at Denver's Rioja restaurant many years ago was pivotal. Steve and I went there and fortunately had an amazing server that truly exemplified HOSPITALITY. He guided us through the wine list, served us an outstanding $40 bottle of wine, and finally gave us our first taste of the Hungarian dessert wine, tokaji. So, I might have to say that Royal Tokaji was my gateway wine.
My favorite cocktails or spirits? A Negroni, Taylor's or Woodford bourbon over a large block of ice, or a simple St. George Spirits Terroir gin and grapefruit juice.
I am a self-taught, professional photographer, and, unless otherwise noted, I take all of the photos for this site. I use a Nikon D7200, and my iPhone 7 Plus makes an occasional appearance. I enjoy using natural lighting and work hard at composition. Capturing beautifully crafted cocktails in the midst of their formation, along with snippets of what it's like to live on a vineyard and be a winemaker, is rewarding and truly reflective of my life. I also try and show off the beauty and uniqueness of life here in the North Fork Valley.
Since my primary occupation is that of a farmer, I tend to wake up a little after sunrise and intentionally carve out time to start the day over breakfast with Steve. We make a hearty meal, go through two French presses of coffee, and outline the day's responsibilities. From there, it's working in the vineyard, doing winery chores, dealing with emails or social media, or getting after accounts and deliveries.
This year is going to be especially crazy. We will be showing our wines in all of the major Colorado wine festivals and tasting events, and we will be driving back to Denver [a four-hour drive] each week to sell our wines at the Pearl Street Farmers Market. Truly, I don't know how we are going to do all of this, just the two of us, and maintain the vineyard. When you own your own business, you do what needs to be done, no matter the cost.
I have high hopes, though!
Regarding adhering to a "regular posting schedule", that's something to which I can't commit. Mother Nature is my boss, and her unpredictable actions dictate my own. You might think I'm self employed, but I report to her. 14-hour workdays are the norm, and by the time the day is over, I'm often ready to crash.
I worked for fifteen years in the Denver restaurant scene, from event planner, manager, and sommelier, to mixologist. I am the sole creator of holly & flora, which won Saveur magazine's readers' choice award for "Best Drinks Blog" in 2016. I'm also a freelance recipe developer, writer, and photographer, contributing pieces for many publications, including Grand Junction's Spoke+Blossom magazine, Eat Boutique, and the cooking website, The Kitchn, where I have written nearly 100 articles on wine, cocktails, and gardening.
Before taking the plunge into farm life, I studied and interned in wineries in Oregon, California, and Spain, and on organic farms, most notably at Findhorn in Forres, Scotland. I also continue to host creative cocktail workshops and create culinary cocktails, wine pairings, and spirit-free drinks for chef dinners and events.
You can read more about our big move from city life to vineyard life in Denver's 5280 Magazine. Their February 2019 issue, titled "Colorado's Wine Boom", features a Q+A with me and Steve about our drastic life change. The issue also features multiple articles on Colorado's exciting push to produce high-quality wines. If you want to read more about how we decided to trade our roles as sommeliers for roles as farmers and winemakers, you can visit this link within our winery's website.
I do not accept guest posts at the time.
I accept sponsored posts on a limited basis, and I only support brands which align with my values, aesthetic, and taste. Regarding samples, I am happy to accept them and give them a try; however, my accepting a product does not necessarily mean that I will post about it. If you are a brand and would like to discuss rates or opportunities, please reach out to me via email. I am happy to chat!
Of course.
Here's the link.
I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to contact me with questions, a simple hello, or other opportunities at hollyandflora [at] gmail [dot] com.
Be sure to follow my blog for regular updates and follow along on my favorite platform, Instagram.
If you'd like to learn more about our vineyard and winery or would like to buy our wines, be sure to sign up for The Storm Cellar's newsletter, follow us on Instagram, or visit our website. It's been an incredible journey so far, and we'd love to share our adventure — and wines — with you!
I love your blog! Very inspiring. I'm really thinking about getting CSA (I'm in California) but I'm worried it's too much fruits/vegetables for one person!
Thanks so much! You should absolutely get a CSA membership – even for one! It forces you to learn a lot about preserving and cooking – sometimes I would receive a vegetable that I knew nothing about and was forced to learn how to prepare it (kohlrabi, for example). A lot of CSAs have single shares available, too. I am sure that you have an awesome array of CSA programs to choose from out there in CA!
This blog is awesome! I think it is so interesting that you're a sommelier and mixologist! How did you get into that line of work? What books would you recommend on wine and spirits?
Hi, Meredith! Thanks for the compliments! I do love my job; it is constantly challenging me and stretching my creativity. My background is eduction, and I was actually a mutual funds advisor for a short stint. I made a choice a few years ago to follow my desires, and the work has come my way. Combined with my love of gardening and cooking, studying wine and pairing food have become central to my daily life. What books do I recommend on wine and spirits? Here are a few good ones…
The Flavor Bible, by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg
The Modern Mixologist, by Tony Abou-Ganim, with Mary Elizabeth Faulkner
Artisanal Cocktails, by Scott Beattie
What to Drink With What You Eat, by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page
Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, by Ted Haigh
The Drunken Botanist, by Amy Stewart
Great Wine Made Simple, by Andrea Immer Robinson, MS
The Wine Bible, by Karen MacNeil
Kevin Zraly's Windows on the World Complete Wine Course
Wine for Dummies, by Ed McCarthy and Mary Ewing-Mulligan
How to Taste, by Jancis Robinson
The Oxford Companion to Wine, by Jancis Robinson
I hope this list helps! Some are on the basic side, and others are more detailed. All the best in your wine and cocktail endeavors!
Oh, and this one, too: The Craft of the Cocktail, by Dale DeGroff
Wow! Thanks! I will definitely check those out.
Hello! Just wanted to post a quick THANKS for including the pig & quill in your blogroll. 🙂 It's always so humbling to see other talented bloggers sharing the love! (LOVE those jalapeno-infused blood orange margaritas, by the way — I'm a sucker for a spicy cocktail!) xoxo, Em
Emily! I have been on a blog-vacation for about a month – I guess I've been making too many margaritas! Thanks so much for your kind words! And you are so welcome – I love your blog and your sense of humor! I'll be back for more! 😉 XO, Jayme
I live in a apartment & try to make the most of my balcony & kitchen (!) experimenting with the planting of any seed I can get my hands on mostly from my own food beginning with local as apple seeds leek onion tomato & garlic to exotic as litchis pomegranate lemons kiwis but they are only less than a year old…
I have a lot of pleasure from my victories (they do feel like that!) & take my failed projects as just that & focus on the growth of what takes root which would be nice if I could apply as a life philosophy 😉
I am looking forward to following 🙂
I actually enjoy the challenges of small spaces – do you use a lot of containers on your balcony? I am drying to try planting a lemon tree. Wow, kiwis!? How are they faring? I agree with you about your perspective on failed projects. I just realize I can't change what happened, but I can take that new knowledge and apply it in the future (it just sucks, when planting experiments fail, because of all the time you put into the projects!). Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your weekend!
Yes, you do put indeed a lot of time & effort & you become attached to them too!
What I did after trial & error is to let my most exotic plants as lemons,kiwis,pomegranates,litchis all in my kitchen throughout but I have to put on the plant a (open,cut at the bottom) bottle which has the greenhouse effect or they die from cold 🙂
The rest I "babysit" in the kitchen during winter & bring them on to the balcony around April.
Wishing you the best of luck for your projects! Let me know how they are doing if you do the exotic ones too, if you need any more details I'd be glad to be of help!
Have a lovely week 🙂
I'm drooling over your garden! So pretty!
Jenny, thanks! You'll have to come over one day soon, for sure!
Hi Jayme! I do public relations for Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyards. I was wondering if you accept wine samples? Thanks!
Hi Tia! Thanks for stopping by. Yes, I do accept wine samples. Feel free to contact me at jaymemarie {at} mac {dot} com. I would love to include GF for a holiday post!
I like your cute hair cut.
Ahhhhh, thank you so much! I try to grow it out, but I can't get past the ease of keeping it super short. I just went even shorter and more asymmetrical. 😉


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How to Download Canon EOS Utility if Lose your CD Installation
When you lose your CD installation, it is not easy to upgrade your firmware and software. With Canon Cameras, you will need Canon EOS Utility when you use with MAC and use your camera via USB. Here are great way to download app from official Canon website. It is easy and can be done in fast.
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