I hate it when bloggers just sort of fizzle out, but that’s what has happened here. I’ve been writing for this website, under various site titles, since the summer of 2014, when my son Gideon was in the hospital with cancer. I had set up a website to sell my first book but didn’t think I had anything more to say. Then he got sick, I started writing about his progress, and I fell in love with blogging. But this blog/site was never intended to be one of those monster, nonstop, new-recipes-every-week behemoths. Nor was/is it any kind of “lifestyle” blog, whatever that means. For six years I’ve basically kept an online journal, with random thoughts, recipes, and books. Now I’ve pretty much said what I want to say in those areas. I believe I’ve listed my four favorite food blogs in a previous post but I don’t see that material now and don’t want to spend any more time looking for it, so here they are again:
Half-Baked Harvest
Pinch of Yum
Sally’s Baking Addiction
Smitten Kitchen
If you want some sort of home decor blog I highly recommend Young House Love, both the blog and the podcast. As I’ve said, and now repeat with perhaps a little more clarity, my main writing emphasis from now on is over at my music blog, Behind the Music. This is not a blog about music theory or performance; it’s about choral music texts. I hope, even if you don’t think you’re interested in the subject, that you’ll head over there anyway. The blog part of the website gets new posts only during the performance season of the Cherry Creek Chorale, when I write a post a week about various pieces we’re singing for upcoming concerts. I’m working on making the site a resource for choral directors, creating a clear index for every post I’ve written since 2013. This project is a big part of my writing goals for the summer. In addition I’m continuing to write short books about masterworks, with two new recent ones now finished. Notes from Ireland is up and available on my website along with my other three books on choral music, with a series of chapters on a set of Irish folk songs that we sang at the final concert of our (sadly truncated) 2019-2020 season. My editor and tech guy (i.e. my husband) now has the text of my book on the Rutter Requiem, which I expect to go live within the week. The great thing about doing material such as this is that the supply of subject matter is inexhaustible.
In the meantime, to close out this blog, I wanted to post some pages on which I’ve spent a great deal of time and planned to make into some sort of e-cookbook. But that’s just not going to happen, for many reasons, the main one being that the last thing the world needs is another cookbook. So over the next couple of weeks I want to at least get these pages out to you, my faithful blog readers. Here are two general info ones to get you started:
“In Which I Modestly Present a Theory of Hospitality”
“Helpful Tools and Equipment for Great Food and Great Serving”