‘Please, sir. I want some more.’ Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist [1] “What will they abolish next? the Hail Mary?” Latin Mass Catholic, Erie, Pa[2] More interesting if you understood what it was all about. James Joyce, Ulysses[3] In the...
After my 66th birthday, I started to try new kinds of adult beverages. In Philadelphia en route to Gettysburg, I had my first Martini, also my second and third on successive nights. Years later, I tried an Old-Fashioned. During this past Christmas...