I’ve been sitting here dithering for months now…
Fidgety under the influence of social distancing, I am finally provoked to embrace project Fresh Start 2020 – reinventing my food blog for a new decade. This is a much needed task. It is also one that I might never have gotten around to if not virtually confined in this Covid-19 burdened season.
No. I said that wrong. I am, rather, physically confined while virtually free to explore this long needed makeover. It is a worthy project and….it is going to be fun!
Digging In…
These past eight years I have been traipsing about the country. I never seemed to light in one place long enough to figure out what it takes to bring my food blog, founded way back in 2007, into the current era. Recently, however, my kitchen and I, not to mention my desk chair, are spending a lot more time together. Finally the “thyme” is right for me to dig in.
As I long feared, the task is overwhelming! There are so many blog related things I know so little about. The amount of research along with the number of choices, the terms I don’t understand, the endless technicalities – well, it’s all quite humbling.
My old blog space and I went through a lot together. We shared good times and bad. We created nearly 500 posts. Still, I feel I might as well have been writing on a cave wall with the charred end of a stick pulled from the fire. The framework of my old space was cobbled together as a labor of love while I learned about putting my voice and my recipes out in the world. Now, it seems, I know too much about blogging to think I can ever catch up. So much has changed and so many pitfalls remain in front of me.
What I’m trying to say here is – what I still don’t know about food blogging is, so much more obviously than ever “…A LOT!!”
…to the Future
That said, I still have some recipes to share. This food blog began as an effort to make my recipes easily available to family and friends. I now realize that I want to keep them accessible, over varying devices and at the whim of varying interests, into the future. My first grandchild has just arrived. He will need nutritious food. He will also need nurturing stories and a bit of insight into his roots, at least on his mom’s side of the family.
So here’s to a fresh start! Here’s to being settled. Here’s to deep roots and strong branches! I know I’m bound to make a mess here, in more ways than one, but I invite you to join me as I continue to discover the art of food and family while savoring life around the table …. in My Own Sweet Thyme!
