REVIEW: “Bitter Wine, Sweet Melons”

REVIEW: “Bitter Wine, Sweet Melons”

By Montague Gammon III The recently released memoir, “Bitter Wine, Sweet Melons,”  very appropriately subtitled “Suffering Loss & Savoring Life,” by my VEER, and formerly “Hampton Roads Magazine,” co-worker Betsy DiJulio, is a series of “largely chronological”...
A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey

By Jeff Maisey The St. George Brewing Company in Hampton has long tapped into the flavor of honey and earned national and statewide acclaim in beer competitions with its multi-award winning Honey Meade Lager, now called Honey Lager.  The buzz around honey at the...
ESSAY: A Message to My Students

ESSAY: A Message to My Students

By Tom Robotham As the fall semester approaches, I find myself thinking about what I want to say to my students on the first day of class.  Typically, that first meeting is brief. I review the syllabus, talk a bit about the purpose of the course, then let them go....
ESSAY: A Message to My Students

ESSAY: The Geography of Intimacy

By Tom Robotham Recently, I mentioned to a close friend that I would characterize myself as an introvert, and he was surprised. Like a lot of people, he seemed to equate introversion with shyness, and I can be quite outgoing at times.  To Carl Jung, who coined the...