Open life/food

I was chatting with my mentor recently about blogging. So many blogs seem to have a single purpose: crafts, child-rearing, cooking or baking, dieting, fashion, politics. Then there are those that do a combination, but still seem coherent. It's this coherence that I'm struggling with.

With everything we all do in our lives, it's hard to squeeze out a connecting thread. I work, I hang out with different groups of friends, I talk to both sides of my family, and I'm taking classes in three different departments. I bake and I cook, but sometimes it's just to eat and sometimes it's just for fun.

My mentor is running a similar blog to mine, and she's called her's an "open food/life journal." I like it. I like a lot of things she does, but there are a lot of other great things that are "open" out there. A lot of wonderful sites on the internet are open source, meaning anyone can edit, support, and contribute to structure of the site. An author and researcher named Brené Brown urges readers to embrace "wholehearted living," meaning you have to open yourself to every emotion and person who walks into your life. The office I work in was recently remodeled and expanded to reflect a more open structure.

I started my blog to help open channels in my writers' block and flex and build my feeble writing muscles. Despite my instincts, I won't try and put this blog in a niche. As I try to live my life in a more open way, I'll record it in my open life/food journal here.

Speaking of continual blogging, here's a preview of posts that are coming soon: