A Clean Slate

Not many people read this blog. OK - practically no one reads this blog, especially since I've only published one post since registering the site almost a year ago. Maybe I have a few friends who check occasionally, thinking that there might be something new, but they've probably given up by now. So far, this blog has been a big failure.

However, I've been thinking a lot about the blog lately. Slowly, I've been building a picture in my mind of what this blog can be, in all its bloggy-licious wonderfulness, if I actually take the time to post now and then. I have hope.

And motivation. Last spring, I promised myself a year "off." The plan was to have a year free of goals and professional responsibilities, in order to give myself time to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life.

I'm bored.

Ergo, I signed up for a summer class about food culture, titled "The Anthropology of Food." The class will involve a lot of research and writing in a short amount of time, and I'm hopeful that it will jump-start my blogging adventure. I don't want this blog to become a cerebral analysis of what I'm learning; neither do I want it to be a collection of recipes and macro shots of fresh produce. I want it to be all of those things, and more.

This post is about starting over from nothing, with nothing. A clean slate. I'm looking forward to messing it up.