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Anything boys can do girls can do better

Here are some of my thoughts, and tips, on how we gals can, with elegance and ease, handle our booze and look good doing it

Lush: The wines I’ve loved and loathed, and how we met

I, still to this day, remember my first sip of wine. I guess I was…

Women, wine and football: The triple-threat!

Certain things in life make me feel good to be alive. No, I’m not going on some dirty-girl rant about what makes me supa’ horny; that’s for another time. I’m talking about wine, women and football! It sounds random, but keep an open mind and read on.

Cocky about sake

But that aside, sake – or 日本酒, which means “Japanese liquor” – happens to be one of my favorite drinks. It’s delicious highly-alcoholic beverage made from rice, born more than 1,000 years ago in Japan.

Books, films that make you think of food

Come rain or come shine there are always good reasons to eat, drink, and cuddle up with a good book or movie. I have a completely sick and twisted crush on scary movies and murder mystery novels, many of which have made sleeping through the night an impossibility for much of my life, and gooey chick flicks and books – anything with Matthew McConaughey booty or Angelina Jolie booby is worth a gander at least. But I must say that in addition to my love of some good T & A, nothing entices me like the allure of a book or movie with lots of hot, sexy, juicy, tasty… food and drink.

Cooling the heat with cocktail hour

This is the time of year when fruity, boozy, frozen cocktails come to the rescue – and although those tiny paper umbrellas don’t do a damn bit of good keeping the sun off our heads, they sure do look cute!

The best aphrodisiac drinks

These are my aphrodisiacs. The word itself, named for the Greek goddess of all things sexy, Aphrodite, dances off the tongue and makes you go, ooh la la. Aphrodisiacs are meant to increase sexual arousal and pleasure, and praise be to Aphrodite, their list is long.

For me, the story begins with a bottle of wine