If you’ve been drinking too much during these past two months of the Covid19 lock down, you are not alone. It’s not a surprise that in countries where alcohol was deemed essential the sale of alcoholic beverages is booming. In the UK, sales were up by 22% in March. US sales of alcoholic beverages have
I think that it was the author Lucy Rocca who coined the term Wine Witch. Belle, who writes the blog Tired of Thinking about Drinking, came up with a malevolent wine o’clock voice named Wolfie. In the rational recovery program, the smiling assassin’s Drink Now voice is called The Feast Beast. And indeed, what I
About five years ago I realized that my wine o’ clock routine was no longer an indulgence but a “ball and chain”. I could stop drinking for a week here and there but once I started again the cycle renewed. Days began with a vow “never to drink again“ but ended with a “well deserved“,
There has been a lot of conflicting information about the health benefits of alcohol and especially wine in the past few years. Depending on what you’ve read moderate drinking could be the best thing for you… or not. Maybe red wine is full of powerful anti oxidants that prevents cancer or maybe the ethanol in
