It has been ages. Once upon a time, I got over extended in other parts of my life. I was still eating at restaurants, fermenting and canning and freezing, cooking, reading cozy mysteries involving food (and even a few more serious things about food!), and yet I was not writing here. 

I am not sure why.

There was (is) a pandemic. And yet, I still ate and read and thought about blogging. But I did not blog - in part because it just seemed to take too much to fix a few things. Last summer I thought about moving from the typepad platform. And some time before that I thought about (well before it I tried to sort another unrelated blog on higher ed).  But, I was stalled. 

What was routine and fun and easy became … too much. 

And, time has been disrupted - I blame the pandemic - who knows how long it has really been.

So, this is an announcement that despite it all these small lovely things still matter. I can try. 

And blogging has resumed. 

(PS The lovely pies were made by my partner sone time ago. She inspired this blog long ago when she helped me create it and still does.)