11:43… break soon.  Rest of the day, the most open of books.  Input notes for client, may need […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

inward jots…

2-22-24 09:58 in office.  Already a LOT of movement.  Yesterday at winery client, need to upload notes. In […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

After some days, you just need a … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Stepping back, seeing Mike Madigan as a newly independent story and “brand”.  Build content around, start from ZERO.  […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

09:15… trying to start conversations.  Have a couple potentials, not stopping there.

Looking at old vineyard and wine pictures, no surprise, putting time on my calendar to address wine projects.  […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

I know what I’m to do, and I WILL execute.  07:46.  Happy I got off the couch, decided […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

2-19-24 ##### Woke up feeling sluggish, unmotivated a bit.  Done with espresso and now

about to swim in coffee.  President’s Day I think is today, right?  Is that why the kids don’t […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Evening thoughts.  Poe mode and Road.  I know this isn’t forever, this contentment, this placid

paragraph and room.  So what does the writer do but stop, see all around the table – walls, […] | Continue reading


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@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

And now Feb comes to a certain close.  Ugh…. 09:03…. Getting the FUCK out of this house today.  […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

In the barrel room, 2018, lunchtime walk. Thinking about aims and projects, wine’s manuscript and everything entailed…. a […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Feeling poetry-y this morning thinking about the Nurse and dreams of being in the classroom

again but not grading papers, not telling the students to write this way – THIS IS HOW YOU […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Shivers

I want more of them The kind that stop me Make me realize place, sky Gaze look stun […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

2-17-24

08:59 up to rain.  Nurse leaving well before 07:00 for her drive to work.  Espresso being made, kids […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

12:58 back from a drive with Henry so he could nap.  He enjoys a single dad spread of […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Peanuts pair well …  Am I allowed to write that? 

Feeling strong and confident in my Stoic practice, and from the conversation I had with Uncle last night, […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Venting.  I have to … certain people and what they do.  Why do I let them touch or […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

15:04.  The day sailing by.  Leaving in a bit more or less than an hour.  Eager to get home to her.

Seriously, how is it fucking three o’clock already?  Parents arrived safely at the coast.  Thinking about them, all […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Cold, calm, Composition. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

14:52…..  15:01. Got the mail, and realizing the office like I have before.  MY quiet, peaceful space. No […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Take a step back.  Don’t think about anything.  NOTHING.  Drawing board thoughts…. May be more in this current story than I thought.

Happiness and positivity, positive steps and language, outlook, and all as a weapon against any negativity.  Even your […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Meetings done. Another at 10:30. Focusing on the short term but not too short, not too tunneled. Asynchronous […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

At the car place, Freeman Toyota on Corby. Told I need new tires, nearing 50k miles. Fucking prop […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Poured Scene

Story. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

The day erupts.  Nurse and I get coffee she looks at me with those sweet eyes in the […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Landline. Yes I have one. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

2-12-24

09:03.  Opening meeting closed, have some espresso on the desk with me, Nurse still here and we’ll go […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Outside #thepozloft last night. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

2-10-24 08:03.  Packed for trip, in the kitchen and grateful.  In the shower looking up at the tile […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

13:48, still in fast.  Not that hungry, to be honest.  More focused on projects, and somehow getting this office decluttered.

15:30…..  Call over.  Yes another.  This one with someone from wine’s world and business, industry.  Not saying who, or at which winery, but one that has my attention.  My attention is sharp at thi… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

journal…

2-9-24 09:08 Morning meeting.  “Opening meeting” the call it. Need to clean and clear this desk.  Too much clutter, too much of way, way too much. Latte.  Notes.  Jack this morn… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Later in the day, putting self in professor mode.  The way the Nurse is a nurse, I am a professor.  I use that word humorously of course, but one of literature, the pen, page, expression … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

2-8-24

Nice night and morning with the most radiant of Nurses.  Today I come back to my condo absolutely, thoroughly prioritized on my work.  Writing and thinking differently, how I return to the vineyard… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Smiles….

Infinite. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

2-7-24 On office.  Lots of rain.  Had to get Jackie his basketball Jersey.  Call scheduled with wine conversation, […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Calm.  Nothing rattling my globe.  My concentration and centeredness is on ME –

my Mental Health and character, Composition. Removing all low ebbs, nearly completely recovered from the one experienced the […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Promising myself more poetry.  Be that poet, the one you were at SSU. Fuck prose. Any pattern or […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

My mood becomes a rattlesnake, any sort of agitated predator.  Why should I … you know what, never […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

First tool, an actual journal.  No typing.  I’m talking PEN, INK.  Paper, pages and pages of scribbles and […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Writing a new course – NEW COMP.

Writing for mood and attitude, happiness, shaping your reality.  Telling stories, how I will get back in the […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

…not letting it.  Stoic attempt… no anger, no saddens, no emotion.  Just an even skip from moment to […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

17:03 Happiness is a decision.  As is attitude supporting.  You have to have the attitude of control, that […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Over 700 words.  10:07.  Call up to the kids and they don’t want breakfast yet.  Thinking of taking […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Out to change this character, Mike Madigan.  In a way maybe no one expected.  And be loud with it.  One idea,

wake early everyday, no matter what.  If I’m with the Nurse, or the kids, or the rare, very […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Just remembered tomorrow is my winemaker sister’s birthday.

08:50 sipping espresso, Drink Coffee Write Books/Blogs Be Happy.  The business plan from the mask mom bought during […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

2-2-24 08:57.  Meeting about to start.  Relatively easy morning with kids.  Henry with a couple of eruptions, but […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

Didn’t write at WF.  Just thought, about wine and the music a guy named Michael who works

there was playing.  Raining again, back in office, back to coffee and vineyard thoughts and dreams.  Passion, living […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago

11:41 Not sure I’m going to complete fast.  Shit, totally thought I would.  Want to escape office but […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 months ago