Vineyard Stories

Taco4x4

29 Mar 2022

Spring Break 2022

A widowers daughter comes home and brings a friend

As a recent widower, my college-age daughter has been great about coming home to check up on me for the past three months. My wife of twenty-five years, her mother, Cherie, passed away unexpectedly due to cancer. She felt fine one day, the next day she wa...

tams_back_yay

1 Mar 2020

Sex and Bird Watching

Her face is lit with a devious innocence behind eyes that speak to me a thousand silent ways.

Somewhere along the way, I decide that drinking is the best way to cope – best being the operative word. Sure, I go to sleep happily sedated in some whiskey-induced high that distorts the shit my life seems to be wallowing in. It brings out all the things...