Edgy Mama

OK, beer lovers, here’s the lastest Brews News for Western North Carolina. Executive summary: Winter Warmer’s sold out, but the Friday night kick-off dinner isn’t. Randall rocks. Highland’s partying and releasing new beers.

Here’s the Brews News from a couple weeks ago that I forgot to link. You know you want to read them both.

Last night I met Ray Daniels of the Cicerone Beer Certification program. Interesting guy and an interesting program. Anyone a certified beer server yet? He tells me there are about 900 of you out there now.

OK, I wrote this when it was 4 fricking degrees outside. Now that it’s 45 and balmy, it seems kind of crazy. But it’s still funny in places.

I’m glad to no longer be living in Arctic Asheville.

In other news, we had a great house concert here on Friday night with sexy singer/songwriter Sarah Blacker. Check out her Web site here.

I’ve been trying to upload a photo, but WordPress is being bitchy. Check photos of lovely Sarah playing guitar in my living room on my Facebook page.

Happy MLK, Jr. day. Remember the greatness.

OK, I looked into my crystal ball for y’all. Here’s some of what I see:

Family dinner conversations will be held via group texting on individual messaging devices that will be attached to your right hand at all times. We’ll all have to learn to eat with our left hands (the first time in history that a device has benefitted lefties).  Kids will learn that when mom or dad talks to them directly, using tongues and vocal chords, that they are in big, big trouble.

Read the rest of my predictions here.

Here’s my annual list of memorable moms. It’s always fun to think about. There are several others that I considered, but I didn’t have space for all (max. 700 words for the print version of my column). So who’d I leave out?