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This week my wife was rushed to the local ER after waking up at 4.00am with severe chest pains and breathing difficulties.

She had a bunch of tests – ECGs, scans, etc. – but nothing was really detected. The cardiologist thought it might be a heart murmur, but there’s no history of that so that was ignored.

Thankfully, she’s home now, but has to follow up to make sure everything’s okay.

When I posted an update on Facebook, the reaction from both physical friends and digital ones reminded me why the world is better when we have someone in it with us, as I share in this episode.

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This week saw yet another tragic and senseless school shooting in America. 10 people are dead, with more injured.

Once again, the usual soundbites are uttered by politicians, yet little weight actually lies behind them. If there was, we wouldn’t watch the same story play out again and again.

Today’s episode recants the words of a mother whose daughter was caught in the horror. It’s a much longer episode than usual, but that mother’s words, and those like her, deserve to be heard in their entirety.

Something needs to change. Apathy, and “thoughts can prayers”, are no longer enough. Truth be told, they never were…

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So… yeah… I started a podcast. Say hello to Life Through a Dram. 🙂

I’d been thinking of doing one for a long time, now. Then, as I started some other projects / labours of love, like The Craft Beer Diaries, I considered how I could utilize podcasting there, too.

But, like a lot of things I do, I procrastinated, and then getting a podcast set up dropped off my radar. So… yeah.

With the podcast, I’m looking to essentially just have a weekly “thought”, that can be about life, being a better person, the world around us… pretty much, what I talk about on the blog, only now through audio.

It won’t be the same content you’ve already read here (though I may riff on previous topics) – instead, it’ll be something that caught my eye, or made me think, and I’ll riff on that.

The name comes from the fact that I’ll be sharing my thoughts while enjoying a dram of fine single malt scotch. Because life’s always better with a good whisky. 🙂

Anyhoo, the first episode is below. Like I mentioned, it’s not super polished, and I’ll be looking to change up the recording a little bit as I move forward.

If you think this might be something you’d enjoy, I’d love for you to subscribe using your preferred option underneath the podcast.

And please, feel free to drop your own thoughts in the comments on what you’d change, what you’d like to hear discussed, etc.

Slaintevar!

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