Every month, it seems like I hear “It’s hard to believe it’s already [fill in the month]!” In response, I have to resist adding a snarky response such as “well, calendars are hard to come by these days…” but that is not all that funny, so I just nod.
June, though, really did “sneak up on me” this year as May was chockfull for me. The mayhem started back in April when my younger son, just two weeks before the deadline to choose his college for next year, threw a monkey wrench into the process by stating (for the first time) that he wanted to try to play basketball in college.
Without getting too much into it here, that meant a slew of phone calls and more than a bit of scrambling to find an avenue to make that (hopefully) happen.
Then, I had two rather large wine tastings I conducted; the first was sour wines for ninety people, the second was 52 wines for four people. Different, sure, but a lot of work for both. Add in two graduations, one in Cleveland, one in Houston, and our huge family vacation to South Korea (where I am writing this), and May really left no time to breathe.
June is not going to be any easier, and Father’s Day will likely go unnoticed in our household as Nathan is poised to accept his first job offer and Sebastian will be heading east for a big basketball tournament. And, honestly, that is fine with me; I am not one who likes when one makes a big fuss (or any fuss, for that matter) for me.
But.
For those out there that are looking to make a fuss for their wine-loving father (and don’t get me wrong, you should!), my June article in Spring Branch Plus Magazine focuses on precisely that (spoiler alert: buy them wine!).
So go check it out and don’t be shy to let me know what you think!
And here is a screenshot of my June article (click on it to go to Spring Branch Plus, it’s on pages 18-19):
If that does not give you quite enough of “me” this month (and if that is the case, you really should discuss it with your therapist), the Chicago Wine Press, for whom I have written numerous articles, has added me to their “About” page, which was awfully nice of them.
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