If you’re drinking merely to get drunk, there’s very little difference between wine and other forms of booze. A five-ounce glass of wine has roughly as much alcohol as a 1.5-ounce shot of vodka or a 12-ounce can of beer. With wine, the alcohol enters your bloodstream more quickly than with beer but more slowly…

Aries You exude confidence and strength because you know your worth and aren’t going to let anyone mistreat you.   Taurus Even from first glance, you are unapologetically yourself and couldn’t care less what others think of you because you would rather be real than play pretend. Gemini You are charming and sociable, so everyone…

Upon his first sip, Dom Pérignon—who was actually a French monk said to have accidentally invented champagne while experimenting with wine in 1693—reportedly said, “Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!” Later on, Dom the Monk had a famous brand of champagne named after him. Described by English writer Aldous Huxley as having “the taste…

If you’ve ever watched a litter of puppies playing, crawling over one another, and spinning in circles trying to catch their tails, you know there’s a deep poetry in that. Loving puppies shows you can be moved by sweet, innocent, vulnerable living things; loving poetry shows you can be moved by abstractions such as words…

Gemini They’re like a human version of a really good HBO TV show, challenging and always stimulating. And you just can’t get enough of them. Yes, they are binge-worthy but also don’t leave you feeling like you wasted your time, but instead actually learned something while being entertained. Cancer Hanging out with Cancer people feels…

Pressure makes diamonds. George S. Patton, Jr. Losing your head in a crisis is a good way to become the crisis. C. J. Redwine Everyone has faced stressful, challenging, and seemingly impossible situations. It’s part of the human condition. But not everyone reacts the same way. Some people can be completely derailed by the slightest…

Whenever the human eye focuses intently on something, it tends to blur out everything around it. This is natural and applies to both the human eye and every camera that humans have ever invented. In strictly visual terms, “tunnel vision” refers to physical malady where one’s peripheral vision is lost and one can only see…

Like a billion glimmering stars, the future shines a light on us, casting shadows that stretch beyond us toward our dark and distant past. At this moment, you are the culmination of all you have been in the past. The past built you. And what you are today is a prediction of everything you will…

Some people are just born oozing natural charm. They are sociable, extroverted, and they may be a little self-centered in the sense that they love basking in others’ attention and approval of others. They may even push it until people get tired of their insatiable egos as time goes by. Leo and Aries are two…