What’s It All About?

Maia — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:02:30 +0000

I love blogging. That is, I loved the idea of blogging as I envisioned a pithy online chronicling of the World According to Me, kind of a quirky glimpse into the organized chaos in my head, peppered with professions of my love of good food, good health and a few of my favorite recipes.

But then there were all these rules—suffocating, stifling, inspiration-sucking rules. Don’t get me wrong. I quite like rules…rules of grammar, rules of etiquette…you get the idea.

That is, I love the idea of rules. I walk a fine line between having a borderline Type A fascination with rules and being a freethinking, renegade. I recently concluded that what I like—love, really—is knowing the rules so that I can take wild, ecstatic pleasure in breaking them.

But back to blogging…

I’m not unhappy with my previous posts, but just as I began feeling bogged down by the rules of blogging, I also felt there was this mysterious “something” eluding me. I said as much to my friend Andrea, who observed the following:

Nobody knows you’re writing a cookbook.

Right over my head. Kept right on yapping.

She said it again, this time with the kind of patient tone one uses with a small and willful child who isn’t getting the message (she’s a good mommy).

Nobody knows you’re writing a cookbook.

Ohhhhhh… Passion, inspiration and the elusive “something” began taking shape…

Nobody knows I’m writing a cookbook!

So. Here goes.

Hey, Everybody! I’m writing a cookbook!

It’s wonderful, it’s frustrating and it’s taken over my life. All day every day, everything I do, it seems, is book-centric. Every meal, every trip to the farmers’ market, every garden harvest, every search for the missing ingredient and yes, every temper tantrum, meltdown and drama. I may actually be the Sarah Bernhardt of writing and cooking and writing about cooking.

Anyway, that’s what this blog is all about.

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What’s It All About?