Reading Cookbooks

On Fate and Blogging

No time like the present, am I right?

I’ll be honest, perfection really isn’t my thing. I don’t really believe in it. Perfection, that is.

So this is my thinking… I could screw around editing the Wordpress theme I have selected, purchasing a new digital camera, begging my boss to buy me Photoshop because I desperately need it for “my job,” and taking photos of food that will one day be part of the best masthead known to bloggerkind, or I could just get started and let everything else just fall into place eventually, no matter how long it takes. I am choosing option two in the hopes that my energy and excitement for this new blog will perpetuate, and my serious plans for this site will someday be realized. The future is going to be nothing short of awesome.

Where to begin?

I’ve been doing this for awhile. Blogging, that is. You can read all about me, the training, the food, the raving, and the ranting at my other blog, A View from the Park. I plan, for the time being, to post on both sites, perhaps cross posting from time to time. I’m a bit sentimental and have issues with giving up the blogger site that started me down this path nearly two years ago.

This site, Reading Cookbooks, is my second attempt at setting up a blog on a domain that I own. The first attempt was, obviously, not successful or you’d be reading that instead of this or my blogger site. I think I was just waiting until the absolutely perfect name for a new blog hit me like a punch square in the jaw. And, amazingly, one day, a year and a half later, it did.

True story.

Reading Cookbooks is the namesake of a creative non-fiction essay I wrote as a senior in college, which I plan to post here if I can find it and continue to have the burning desire to re-type all 12 pages of it. While the title really only scratches the surface of topics I will post about, I couldn’t resist the little bit o’ history, and when I found the domain was available, I assumed it was nothing short of fate.

I plan to use this site to talk about food and recipes, cooking and eating, diet and weight loss, health and wellness, body image and acceptance, exercise and training — all of the things I enjoy thinking and learning about combined with my one true love, my first love, writing.

So… I guess it’s official. I am one of those crazy bitches who believes she has so much to say… so much to — ahem – offer… she needs not one blog, but two.

Welcome to Reading Cookbooks.