Boozy Lifestyle – Boozy Lifestyle©

Gimme A Head With Hair

I asked my hairdresser for long layers and ended up with a bob. As more than a year’s worth of growth was lying on the floor, I wept as she swept.

Boozy Lifestyle Release Party

Boozy Lifestyle Now Available On Amazon.com! Funny, light-hearted collection of stories about life and family integrated with wine, cocktails, and food, including over 50 food and drink recipes.

What’s In My Journal

While other folks may be pouring their hearts out and expressing their inner-most thoughts and feelings in their journals, I’m recording what I eat and drink every day.

Tales of the Liquor Store: Getting To Know Your Customers

After several weeks of selling Yellow Tail, Cupcake, and Sutter Home, I had all but given on being able to sell the Cakebread Chardonnay and the Masi Amarone. Then along came a young, well-dressed man looking for a holiday gift for his boss.

Tales of the Liquor Store: Friendly Advice

In the process of becoming new business owners, the previous proprietors endowed us with three parting pearls of wisdom including, 1) “Don’t let people see into the windows”, 2) “You can’t make any money on beer”, and 3) “Concentrate on selling the high-end wines”.

What 3 Things Do You Value Most?

As a teenager, valuing truth sounded like something biblical; be honest and don’t lie to your parents. For older me, truth represents reality. It’s a lifelong learning process to perceive facts without bias. The chaotic din of social media and pundits makes us more prone to falsehoods and propaganda and less able to distinguish factual reality. I didn’t realize how much I valued truth and integrity until I saw so little of them displayed in public.

Tales of the Liquor Store: How Did We Get Here?

When I walk into a wine shop, I’m like a kid in a candy store, so buying a liquor store seemed like a good idea at the time.

Boozy Beginnings

Inspiration struck during cocktail hour one evening when I referred to our routine as our “boozy lifestyle”. In a trendy culture of beauty, fitness, and fashion lifestyle gurus, the idea of being a boozy lifestyle expert carries a measure of irony with it. The word ‘boozy’ expresses just the irreverence I was looking for; not youthful, feminine, or especially well-mannered.