Five Years Ago Today


Tuesday, May 24, 2003: Dr. Aubrey Claudius Galloway busted open my chest and wired four cardiovascular bypasses into my system and then stitched me back shut five years ago at New York University Hospital.

It was not a pleasant experience. Please stop smoking, eat well, drink lots of red wine, exercise, avoid stress and spread love to everyone around you. Try to do something to counteract human frailty and postpone mortality. Avoid family histories of heart problems and choose well who you marry and reproduce with. If you can, eat lots of bran.

When you face death you think of what you have. I have a wonderful wife who turned my life upside down and opened worlds, cultures, foods, wines and human kindness to me. I have a son who is incredibly smart, funny and oddly good-looking. A daughter who might eventually be funnier than I am and can see through hypocricy and pretense with incredible speed and wit. I still have two living parents who are celebrating 60 years of marriage in two weeks. I have a business partner, Kevin McKenna, who kept everything running and expanding while I recuperated. I even have a loyal and loving dog.

I work with passionate and engaging vignerons and have never received the coveted Robert Parker Wine Personality of the Year Award.

What else could a man ask for?

My love and thanks to all of you.

Joe Dressner

- Joe Dressner 5-23-2005 11:53 pm


A votre sante! And Buster's.

Which Wine Board does your daughter post on?

I find Bran unpleasant.


- b-wood (guest) 5-24-2005 2:25 am


is this a message from the future?
- vagueperson (guest) 5-24-2005 5:01 pm


Now that's what i call Power-Blogging! My love and thanks to you.
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- the sheriff (guest) 5-25-2005 5:53 pm


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Thanks.
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