The Old Fashioned is as classic as cocktails get, and the Liquor.com take is can’t-miss. If you’re more into the fruit-muddling version (as I am), try the Difford’s Guide recipe.
I’ve always been a tinkerer, though. So here, for your summer sipping enjoyment, is the Doc Variant: Read more
My grandmother, Helen Marshall Smith, was born in 1914. Like most women of her generation her career opportunities were limited, and like nearly all women in her socio-economic stratum – Southern working class – her educational opportunities were nearly non-existent.
One more fact to note: she had polio as a child and that, plus some sort of hip issue I never fully understood, meant she spent most of her life on crutches.
I thought about Grandmother the other day as I wandered around Denver Botanic Gardens with my Nikon. Read more
Yesterday I hit the button on my iPhone and said “Hey, Alexa.”
Siri replied, “Wow. Awkward.”
I was embarrassed to have gotten her name wrong.
Union Station, Denver
