I thought that things would change when we bid farewell to the dumpster fire of a year that was 2020, but January seems more like the 13th month of 2020 than...
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Pandemic W(h)ine
Can I get a refund for the year 2021? The first week or so was even worse than 2020, so I am no longer interested in participating in 2021. If you...
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Happy Beer-thday
While I am happy to finally see the year 2020 in the rearview mirror, not much has changed in the early days of January. I am still isolated at home with...
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YOLO For Barolo
I have been isolated at home for so long that I have forgotten about the outside world, with international travel but a dim and fading memory. A few...
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Santa Beer
No one left any milk and cookies for Santa this year, fearing him to be a COVID superspreader, due to all the households he visited in the wee morning hours of...
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Trepat-dation
When the news came out about Alberta going into lockdown again, I immediately activated my pandemic response plan. No, I did not stock up on toilet paper...
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Champagne
If 2020 was a drink, it would be a Baileys and lime juice. Or maybe a red wine mixed with Diet Coke. Or whatever terrible cocktail you can think of...
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Franc and Earnest
With Alberta doubling its daily COVID infection count from 1000 to 2000 in just a few short weeks, I am continuing my lonesome hermitage at home, with naught...
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OK With Beaujolais
Every day of this accursed pandemic gives me a new reason to drown my sorrows in wine! Alberta has the dubious honour of being the national hotspot...
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Zin Is In
As we barrel headlong into overwhelming our hard-working health care workers with record-breaking pandemic infections, I have been doing my part by staying...
