Fast Lane Soup

Get Engaged On Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is the single most romantic day of the year. Christmas is nice. Birthdays are special but Valentine’s Day is the day for lovers. If you are considering asking your lady love to marry you, you just couldn’t pick a more romantic time to ask her than on Valentine’s Day. […]

Christmas and New Year’s vacation was over. I was back in school facing the prospect that it was months before warm weather would really be back and even longer before I wouldn’t be required to get up, brush my teeth, put on clean clothes and go to school five days a week. I liked hanging […]

Here are some of my favorite love quotes for Valentine’s Day.
Number 1: Oscar Hammerstein from The Sound of Music:
“A bell is no bell ’til you ring it,
A song is no song ’til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
‘Til you give it away.”
Number 2: Leo Tolstoy said, […]

I have always wanted to visit the vineyards and sample all the Wines of Loire Valley. Every time that particular vacation idea crosses my mind, I can’t help but stop whatever I am doing and start playing my wine fantasies. The ritual opening of wine bottles, short examination of the cork, smelling the wine, scrutinizing […]