So my bro says he’s shutting down 327Words, but will continue his regular Thursday/Friday reports about riding with the bike gang …. I guess he’s been mirroring the two blogs for awhile, I just didn’t know because I only looked at the 327 side. He says there’s gonna be a book, but I can’t tell if he’s kidding or not – here’s the purported title, whaddya think? Yoga, Cycling, and Pot: Ninety-Nine 327-Word Essays On Bending, Biking, Baking, and More.
I’ve been noticing a similar lack of blog-writing-enthusiasm in myself, but unlike my brother, I don’t think I’m done. I’m just too busy to write good. Like my brother, I started with blogging on the early side, in 2006. Six years later there are bajillion good food blogs, with great photography, and step by step reflective processes to teach you how to cook and bake and eat and buy good produce.
But I’ve always thought the best food writing is not really about the food – it’s about everything, just using the food experience as the way to get at it. And when I hardly ever get at it, I get disappointed and that low motivation for posting sets in.
I worked at home today and didn’t get nearly enough done on my classes, although I did figure out how to point the slide recording software to a different power point, which was satisfying. I rode my bike over to the good butcher and got brats and a pork roast for the grill, but I’m not sure who’ll be around to eat it. And I realize I made a pork roast on 4th of July, too. I cooked a lot tonight, first, 2 buckets of ratatouille for the freezer. Then stuffed peppers, with some of my #2 grade red peppers from Tipi, that I will be roasting and pickling and freezing over the long holiday weekend, and I think making pepperonata, too. I made a peach and raspberry pie, too. And I’m going to put a pot of baked beans into the oven to cook while we sleep – I just can’t decide if I’ll make them vegetarian or with bacon.
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