November 2019 - Forts, Marmots, Cannon, and Rum

Restaurant Review: St. Anselm

St. Anselm is a damn good restaurant. It fills a nice little niche in the DC restaurant scene. Better than your average upper tier dinner …

We all remember our first. The Castillo de San Marcos is the first fortress I remember visiting and became one of the most influential places …

My how my tastes have changed. When I got this bottle of Koloa Kaua’i Spiced back in 2013, I enjoyed it. “Oh it’s sweet…such light …

Rum is a popular topic here at Forts, Marmots, Cannon, and Rum. So a book that plunges into the history of our favorite libation like …

On November 11, 2018 I attended the ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI. It …

I wish everyone a reflective Armistice Day or Veterans Day this November 11th. War films are one of the biggest ways we in the US …

I ate my first meal in Italy at Ristorante San Giorgio. My Air Force buddy took me there when I arrived in Aviano from Germany …

The Smith is appropriately named. Familiar, comfortable, but nothing really sets it apart.

No, this isn’t a further lament about my conflicted baseball feelings. This is an actual book. Written by Robert M. Gorman and David Weeks, Death …

Baseball has been constant presence in my life since the beginning. For the first 30 years or so, I was solidly a Red Sox fan. …