By now you've probably heard the good news, but just in case you haven't...| DIY & dragons
The last time I wrote about Barkeep on the Borderlands, it was but a young Kickstarter with dreams of fully funding, and my own involvement was merely the future promise of an as-yet unmet stretch goal.| DIY & dragons
Over the past year and a half, I've been writing reviews of all the books I finish and posting them to a private social media feed. | DIY & dragons
The fifth season of Nick LS Whelan's excellent Blogs on Tape project is well underway, and I've been fortunate enough to be included again this year!| DIY & dragons
Over the summer, I got really depressed. I've had major depressive disorder for more or less my entire life, and I mostly have it well-managed, but sometimes it grows out of my control. Summers are often worse, for whatever reason. And of course, the general state of the world has worsened, downgrading from this-is-fine-dot-png to not-great-bob-dot-gif, in ways too numerous to mention, which isn't the cause of my depression, but certainly doesn't help either.| DIY & dragons
Lots of book stuff happening.| Idiosyncratic Whisk
There have been a couple of great citations recently of my housing boom work.| Idiosyncratic Whisk
The Portuguese translation of my book Around the World in Eighty Wines has received an award. A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Vinhos, published in Brazil by Editora Valentina, was named best wine book translation by Gourmand International. The book is available from the publisher as well as through the usual online sellers, including Amazon.com in […]| The Wine Economist
Greetings all! Some of you have probably noticed there hasn’t been much activity here lately. I’m sorry about that but other commitments have been piling up and I just haven’t had time to keep things humming along here on Civil War Pop. I already mentioned my new job (more about that below) but I also have […]| Civil War Pop
I’m happy to announce that this week I started a new job as Research Historian for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. While I’ll miss my colleagues at The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, I’m delighted to enter a position that allows me to do more public history and help promote this amazing institution. I was […]| Civil War Pop