Beautiful

She was walking North as I walked South. I saw her for only a few moments. She was, objectively, plain. An unremarkable face, not blessed with much of a figure.

But she had a spring in her step. Her hair flowed in the light breeze and bounced a bit from her cheerful gait. An expression of gentle happiness was amplified by her smiling eyes.

She was beautiful.

Acrostics, An Introduction

An introduction to mine, that is. It’s very doubtful you haven’t come across such things before. As sonnets were to Elizabethans, acrostics are to me: a poetical diversion and an exercise in one.  The variation in name length (I almost always base it on a name) inspires different solutions for meter and rhyme… if I decide to use either.

Presented here for your entertainment are a few acrostics. More will likely follow.

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Drink Recipes, Condensed

Perhaps the best benefit of attending a bartending school (as opposed to flailing about on one’s own) is learning the structure of drinks. This applies to the techniques of building them, the reason certain proportions work, and the similarities that exist between drinks. Knowing one recipe is often 80% of the way to knowing a few more, since they tend to develop one from another. I’ll introduce you to some cocktail families as we go.

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