Ready, set, rewind....

Time just floats away these days.....

At least, that is the way that it seems.  My question is....

Where does it go?

I realized tonight that I haven't actually posted anything on this old blog since June 20th.

June 20th!

Seriously?

Something has got to change.

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately.

a.lot.of.thinking

How I started this blog.....what I've done with it....what I haven't done with it....the tangents that I've taken....and last but not least, how do I get started again?  How do I catch up?  Do I catch up?  Do I start over?  Can I even start over?

Where do we go from here?

I've been terrible about posting.  I've been terrible about visiting you.  I've been terrible about reading and replying to email.  I am so sorry about that.  Many of you have emailed me to check on me and to say hello.  Thank you so much for that!   I never anticipated the number of people that I would meet when I started this blog and the number that I would eventually call "my friends".  

I have been considering this blog for awhile.  Every day that has ended without me writing one single word or posting one "wordless" photo post, has found me thinking about this blog and where I'm going to go with it.  I have thought of telling you that I'm taking a break from the blog if only to alleviate the guilt I have been feeling over my lack of posting.  I am quite sure you have figured out that I have been on hiatus and quite frankly, I feel like that season in my life is over. 

Lately, we have been going for walks in the evening.  On one of those evening strolls, while considering my life and this blog, I have decided that the guilt is over and it is time to take action.  I'm going back to the beginning and I'm going to sit down and type.  Maybe I won't sit down and write something every day.  I'm not going to pressure myself into being religious about when and how often and what I will post.  I'm just going to start doing it more often.   I'm going to see what happens with it.

Once upon a time, this was fun.  It was a creative outlet for me and I used it as such.  It is time to get back to that.   I ventured off into food blogging like so many others and that was fun.   That is, also, not going to change.  David and I love food.  We love to cook.....we love to eat....we love to share that with friends and family.  That's a huge part of who I am so I will continue to share that here.  I still love taking photos and traveling so that's still going to be here, as well.  I am, also, going to start writing from my heart because there's a lot of stuff that I need to say.  You may not need to hear it; but, I definitely need to say it.  Some of it may be interesting to you.  Some of it may not be interesting at all.  That is okay.  This blog was started for me without an idea that anyone would ever read it.  I am going back to that place.  

During this break that I have been on, life has not stopped for one moment.  While I have not been sharing things here with you, food has still been prepared and photographed and eaten and enjoyed.  We have gone places and done things and photographed our journey along the way.  We have discovered yummy restaurants and traveled roads we have never been on before.  I'm going to start rewinding and writing about what we have been experiencing.   We are not just going to go backwards though.  We are going to continue forward enjoying life because as someone wise used to tell me.... 

"Life is meant to be lived not endured"

and...

I couldn't agree more.