Life on the Vine

It's that time.  Time for another wine in review.  In the back of my journal I keep a list of all the wineries we've visited since moving here.  I usually note the name, the date, and who we were with.  It's worked out that about every five months I write a blog post to summarize our wine adventures.  In the past five months (September - January) we did slow down a bit in the winery department.  But, I think we still did respectably.  During this period we visited six new wineries and re-visited six others. September began with a family visit.  My mom and her boyfriend, and my aunt and her husband flew in from the States for a visit.  It was a whirlwind week that included two nights in Rome, two nights in Florence, and the Biennial Chess Game in Marostica.  La Dolce Vigna , a local winery we've visited before, was having a harvest festival so we were able to take the family.  It was a bit hot but everyone had fun.  We ate, harvested some grapes, and my mom and her boy

Friday I finished my first book for the 2019 Read Harder Challenge – Lesley Stahl’s Reporting Live .   I bought the book several years ago in a used bookstore, and the challenge gave me the perfect opportunity to finally read it.   The book, published in 1999, meets the challenge to "read a book by a journalist or about journalism. "  The book covers the first two decades of Stahl’s career at CBS.   It begins in 1972 when she, Connie Chung, and Bernard Shaw were hired to work in CBS’s Washington DC Bureau as part of affirmative action.   Before that, Stahl was an on-air reporter at Channel 5 in Boston.   Stahl worked out of the DC bureau for a couple years as a beat reporter.  One of her main assignments during that time was covering the legal proceedings surrounding the Watergate investigation.   She was ultimately selected to be a CBS White House Correspondent and covered the Carter, Reagan, and Bush (Senior) administrations.    From book's photo insert: CBS 1