I have taken two months away from the blog to think about why am I writing this blog and what direction that I would like to take it.
Here are my top five reasons why I am writing this blog:
- To prevent family recipes from being lost. Some family favorite recipes have been lost with the death of their authors. The blog allows me to document old family favorites, new ideas, and ongoing food events in my life.
- To improve my writing skills. I would rather write equations than words, so writing this blog is a chance for me to work on this weakness in my skill set.
- To share my love of food! I love thinking about food, cooking food, photographing food and I especially love eating food.
- To address food issues. I feel for people in my community with poor access to food. By writing about food and taking on certain food issues, I somehow seek to be an advocate for people without a secure food supply or simply not enough to eat.
- To create something in the digital or virtual world rather than the physical world. I develop manufacturing processes at a consumer goods company during my day job in the physical world. I am fascinated about making something like this blog, which totally resides in the virtual world.
The biggest challenge that I have had is how to incorporate blog writing into my daily life. I have worked out various schedules but have had a difficult time sticking with them. It seems so easy to consume media rather than creating it.
Is this blog a passion, do I want to keep it going? Yes, I do. Therefore, to you my reader I make a commitment to start posting some of the 20 or so posting that I have in the ideation phase or draft form. These new posts will expand the scope of the blog to include food security, some lifestyle items, some restaurant reviews with family recipes continuing at the core.