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From Wayne Gretzky to Snoop Dogg: tasting celebrity wine
I just finished writing a story for Edify about celebrity wines. The story will be in the September issue; I’ll share the link here when it’s out. Celebrity wine was one of the first topics […]
Astrology of June 2021: Monthly Overview
June is a big month with a lot of major astrological transits. It will start with the usual (or unusual?) Mercury retrograde hijinks. This will be all the more prominent and unusual given that an […]
Astrology of May 2021: Monthly Overview
There are some really great parts of May and some really challenging parts. The biggest event is Jupiter’s ingress into Pisces on May 13. As I described in my annual 2021 overview, this is the […]
Astrology of April 2021: Monthly Overview
April promises to bring some tension and surprises after a relatively easygoing March. Some of the most notable aspects this month are a series of squares made by the handful of planets/lights travelling through the […]
Canadian Astrology: Alberta’s Aries Ingress 2021
In honour of today’s Aries ingress (happy equinox!) I decided to take a look at the ingress as it hits Alberta. I just posted my delineation of Alberta’s natal chart yesterday, so this is a […]
Canadian Astrology: Interpreting Alberta’s Natal Chart
Alberta was officially founded on September 1, 1905 with the passage of the Alberta Act. Saskatchewan was also founded on the same day, making Alberta and Saskatchewan “Time Twins” and forever linking the two provinces […]
It’s TIME to Evolve: tasting value Okanagan wine
A little while ago I had the opportunity to try a few Okanagan wines that are part of the portfolio under Encore Vineyards: TIME Winery, McWatters Collection and Evolve Cellars. Encore was owned by the […]
Astrology of March 2021: Monthly Overview
March should be one of the more positive, chill months of 2021. It starts off with some dispersion of the intense Aquarian energy that built up in February. As the month opens, the Sun and […]
What does natural wine even mean?
My latest story in Edify is a deep(er) dive on natural wines. I really wanted to dig into this topic further and explore what’s going on with natural wines in Edmonton particularly. I spoke with […]
Taste testing Odessa Black: Ukraine’s hybrid grape varietal
Tonight I’m enjoying a unique wine from Ukraine. That’s right, Ukraine. This is the first wine I’ve ever tried from this country, which has a pretty tiny wine industry. The winery, Kolonist, is new to […]
Bone dry bubbly from Champagne
We are already well into February and the New Year seems like it was a million years ago already, but I’ve been meaning to post about the lovely bottle of Grower Champagne that I drank […]
The Astrology of r/WallStreetBets
The natal chart of the WallStreetBets subreddit explains a lot about this infamous online investor group.
