
THE X FACTOR
I’m like a kid in a candy store. There were no tears on my end, only utter and pure glee. I get FOUR DAYS of child-free bliss. I’m attending an event where CHILDREN ARE NOT ALLOWED. Neither are pets, strays and other animals. Wine, wine and more wine.

PINOT CRAZED...
I am standing in line with a couple hundred people. We are not here for Taylor Swift or to audition for the Voice, we are here celebrating Pinot Noir at a salmon bake under a grove of old mossy oak trees and strings of hundreds of romantic white lanterns.