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Breakfast with the Vermudgeon (cont.)
Above: If you see this man in the Combes Family Inn’s kitchen, enter at your own risk! Last month, I caught my father in such a rare moment of weakness that I not only managed to get a number of great...
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Take It or Leave It
Now that I’m within striking distance of the end of my self-imposed year-long ban on drinking alcohol, I want to share my new appreciation for the surprisingly bifurcated nature of alcohol. A few weeks...
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No Good Reason
I woke up early the other day thinking about my blog and tried to come up with one good reason why I haven’t posted anything lately. (Can you believe I wrote my last post about this survey of American...
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So Close, I Can Taste It
Just before I left the office last night, a rush of emotion came over me when I realized that today would be New Year’s Eve and 2014 would soon be a distant memory. Envisioning myself at midnight...
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RESOLUTION, RENEWAL & CHANGE
I did it! I faithfully kept my 2014 New Year’s resolution to abstain from alcohol for the entire year. To be honest, it surprised me that I stuck with it, especially considering the major lifestyle...
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What’s It Like?
Now that a full month has passed, it’s time to give some thought to the question people are asking me over and over again: What’s it like to drink again after a year without alcohol? Once I got over...
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Vive La Différence!
As I reported last week, having resumed the option to drink wine at dinner has decreased the likelihood that I have time or motivation to exercise in the evening. Since one of my key goals this year...
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Polling All Followers
My Detours & Destinations blog is now over a year old and I’ve posted in it more than 70 times. Mostly, I’ve written about my “dry year” New Year’s resolution. I also wrote periodically about my...
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INN KITCHEN COMFORTS
More than 40 followers of my blog took a readers’ poll that I recently issued. Although the responses indicate a diversity of interests, the message was clear: you want to read more tales about the...
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GETTING A RISE OUT OF DAD
In previous posts, I’ve described in great detail my dad’s prowess as the Combes Family Inn‘s breakfast chef, and, on a few occasions, wrote about my mom’s role as its main dinner chef. Dad also...
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William Marvin Combes was born on September 13, 1941 in Rockville Centre, NY. The third and youngest child of Alice Louise Marvin (a homemaker and witty poet) and George Donald Combes (an intellectual...
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