Frenzied, panicked a bit, and over what.  No idea. 

Trying to get out this proposal and no one is helping.  Finding humor in it, I have to.  […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

More love in my stories…

What I’ve decided. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Won’t lie… I’m in no mood to write.  I’m trying to escape sluggishness but it’s near bloody impossible.  […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Can’t wait to be home, in the loft.  Light dinner, little wine, then bed. 

I need to catch up on sleep—  Think they fucked up the latte, no cinnamon.  Whatever.  No time […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

You’re starting your day. You know if it’s amazing qualities already.

The day can only be amazing, understand that. Believe it, embody it… The positive ebbs are already surround […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Deciding…

On Newness, to see everything for the first time over and over…. You ever felt that way?? When […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

WHY DO I EVER LEAVE WINE?  Go further into it.. be more like my dad with this approach […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Brought myself to Starbucks on California & Battery again. 

My second straight literary lunch.  Tired, not sure I’m hitting yesterday’s word count.  Not trying for anything specific.  […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Walking here, across Sansome to this 200 block, looking down the street and connection with SF like I […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Went over 1001 word quota.  Oh well.  18 minutes left.  Will post in a minute.  Think I finished […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

The pages. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

A year ago…

And still they talk. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Emma comes downstairs and asks if she can have breakfast.  I have to laugh a little, like I’m […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

#wine

Stories… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

16:28 home and lunch done.  All is right with this loft world. Kids relaxing after a long day […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Jack walks into the kitchen saying he wants breakfast Henry follows

and the three of us talk.  Jack asks Henry which he prefers, Paw Patrol or Cars.  Henry in […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

4-1-23 Jack waking me this morning with an April fool’s joke -“Dad, Henry pooped in your bed!” He […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Learn the day

Learn your new self, all the lessons around you Turn this morning and day ahead into the story […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

morning…

3-30-23 08:49 in chair doing expenses.  Could not believe yesterday that I was in Vegas.  Event was more […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

…coffee queued just as Dad does literally every night. 

Been thinking about his systems and organization, consolidations today.  Speaking of, still a few more receipts.  Can’t believe […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

13:09 back from errands and done with lunch made here.  Simple, pb&j and chips, now sipping coffee and […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Rain.  Working from home today, and as hard as I want. 

Will go in bursts or jabs of energy and production.  Not making coffee or espresso just yet, waiting.  […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Dinner done, and back on keys still not much ire or fire or desire for paragraphs.  Hoping this […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

3-27-23 No motivation to write after the day.  Second-guessing myself then  landing in composition, tired when home after […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

A vino memory. From 2 years ago. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Refusing the one place

that someone judging sees for me. Sorry. Globally REJECTED. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Day’s story,

starting. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Earlier…. A latte. Happiness decided.

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@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

2:32 – Jack’s game, Emma’s practice,

after coming here doing a couple things then a much needed nap.  Up and lunch, leftovers from last […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Up at 6:40 kids already ready.  I’m confused why we’re so ahead of schedule. Made my usual departure […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

I love

the A.M. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Prospecting, but slowly.  More so playing around and looking for different contact types.  Almost 2, and I haven’t […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Tired, but excited with this new idea. 

Take a huge sip of the coffee I just made and with that, any nap trap is DEAD. […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

I love

the A.M. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

2:10 Already need a break.  Starting conversations with new property managers and I feel my focus on real […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

6:35

….. Up and my phone was dead, and it wouldn’t charge.  Paranoid I’d sleep in too late I […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Traveling next week for the first time in the new sales story. 

Day trip to Vegas for a convention…. Should be interesting.  Going with most of the team.  Security technology […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Coffee, no Starbucks this morning.  Don’t want to have to enter a goddamn receipt in Quicken. Feel lazy […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Yes it does.

Every hour. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Always a story.

Forever a scene. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Emma…

Just a baby. ❤️ | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Laundry, breakfast requests, me nursing this excessive espresso serving.  Started the first article but need to break away, pause, think about the direction of it and other things. Should take… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

3-19-23

….. 9:14 been up for about an hour, all of us.  Henry waffles beeping at me… Jack requests breakfast and chocolate milk made by me.  Raining, and has been for hours. Emma requested … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

End of last night…

Ready to log off. Gratitude and ideas in this fiction effort tackle and take me wherever they want. Jack and Emmie playing this new game with each other.  Like trivia, educational and history/… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

8:25

Tired, barely energy or interest to write.  Peace in nook, Jack playing his game, Emma and Henry watching kid shows. Writing for sake of writing, to find something.  Feel diminished passion, d… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

“Sorry babe, I have to work.  Unfortunately I don’t get Spring Break, it makes Daddy sad.” And it does.  Just telling her that had me tearing and with a broken dusty interrupted voc… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

Out the door ahead of schedule and arriving early.  Success.  I have to credit Jack and Emma for their allied approach this early Saturday rise.  Henry too, agreeable.  I learn from them and their … | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago

The vineyard.

LOVE. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 year ago