I wanted to see what it felt like to post over at my personal blog, so I did. It’s here.
It felt good to post there, and while I really dislike the idea of letting go of this place, I also relish the idea of putting all the parts of my life in one place. I haven’t decided what I’m doing yet, but I’m sure I’ll post more about food over there in the interim, so feel free to add that blog to your reader.
The last couple weeks at home I’ve been reading so much, and cooking so much, and thinking so much, and my conclusions have been settling quietly in, like new family members.
I don’t plan on going vegan again, anytime soon. I feel badly about this, that it didn’t work for me, but I’ve been trying to go vegan since 1990. That’s 20 very long years of beating myself up because I can’t make a diet work for me that I’m discovering doesn’t work for a lot of other very good and non-evil people either. Thousands of dollars spent on books, magazines, entry into exclusive websites, and a few thousand more hours spent beating myself up when it didn’t work; I’m starting fresh. There will be no more beating myself up about not going vegan. If I end up evolving to a vegan diet over time, than that’s great. But this blog is no longer about “going vegan”. I’m going to change the tagline soon.
So what IS it about? That’s what I’ve been asking myself lately. It’s surprisingly hard for me to cope with the “new reality” of my eating habits not being about eventually going vegan. That’s been the main goal for so many years that it feels like utterly foreign territory to attempt to write without that in mind.
Which is why I’ve been considering the idea of starting an entirely new food blog about sustainable omnivory. I’d probably park it over at food.hollie.us, and call it something craaaazy, like Grass Dirt Beef. Just kidding. My other idea was to just start writing about food over at my personal blog. What do you guys think? Should I scrap this blog and start afresh, or is changing the focus 180 degrees something that you think readers can adjust to?
Happy Holidays dear readers! This blog has been so fun, and I love writing the posts and reading the comments, and reading all the blogs that you guys write, which are just an amazing collection of writing and cooking talent. Thanks for reading!
I’m finding myself overly stressed about the holidays, and I’m going to take care of myself and just start my vacation now. I urge you all to take care of yourselves too, in whatever way you need!
See you after Christmas!
- Hollie
Tomorrow we leave for Portland, to visit family and have the Thanksgiving Day celebration we missed having with them last week, thanks to a few of us being sick.
I’ll return on Sunday, and write up some about what I’ve been doing! I’m so excited to get back to this!
Hollie is back in the house…..
I’m considering the idea of revving up the blog again. What say you? Is anyone still reading it? Would this be useful to do? It will take a lot of work to re-organize the archives and make this site into something really fun again, but I think I have the energy. I miss this! My subscription numbers, surprisingly, haven’t changed much since I stopped writing six months ago, but I don’t know if that means people are too lazy to say goodbye or they’re just dying for some more posts about kale smoothies.
My food life has been interesting lately! I went gluten-free a few months ago, and I feel a whole lot better. Then I went off sugar, and have lost a total of 17 pounds (still seem to be losing slowly). I think all these changes might be worth writing about…..