Sadly, I’ve been an irresponsible blogger. It’s been almost a year now since I’ve last posted. A few reasons for this:
1. I’ve been focusing on work. In Chicago, I was working for a few non-profit organizations as an English as a Second Language instructor. Between teaching, lesson planning, traveling between three centers, attending meetings and professional development workshops, developing a teaching portfolio, and making sure that I had a sufficient amount of positive and creative energy for my classes, I’ve been exhausted.
2. Now, I surely could have found some free time in the past ten months to provide the sporadic update. But, the fact is, I’ve been wrapped up in other creative pursuits. You’ll be happy to hear that I’m still eating (too much) and cooking too, but I’ve also been playing my fiddle, experimenting with photography, and working on some short stories– not to mention catching up on my reading and movie watching.
3. Changes. I’m currently in the process of relocating from Chicago to Rome. In fact, by this time next week, I’ll be in Italy.
Because of this move, I’d like to get this blog up and running again. This time, though, the focus will be much more general. As my little corner of the internet, I’d like to use this space for: musings regarding my new home city, a space to promote my writing and publications, my experiments as a novice photographer, the occasional recording of my fiddling, and, of course, a few recipes and food-related posts. This will be a haphazard pastiche of things that I find interesting, inspiring, amusing, and beautiful.
Cheers to a fantastic 2012!
