Leaves and Petals

I’ve got a new food blog. Yes, another one!

I’ve teamed up with the folks at the Toronto produce delivery service, Wanigan, to run a blog about the weekly box of produce they send me, and what I cook with the contents.

The first box arrived today, and I start cooking (and posting) tomorrow.

Please check out The Fork in the Road.

And Happy Birthday to my new blog.

September always feels much more like the new year than January to me. Despite being a childfree lady of somewhat middle age, I still get that urge every September to go buy crayons and glue and scribblers and binders.

Besides the kids going back to school, September is the start of the cultural season for things like theatre and ballet. People get back into a regular schedule after the lazy days of summer where anything goes.

So it seemed like the perfect time for me to start a new blog.

For many years, I kept an account over at LiveJournal, but was never completely happy with the format. Initially I started a journal because all my friends were doing it, but it was never what I truly wanted it to be. There’s an ongoing joke that bloggers start blogging because they have meaningful and interesting things to say to the world, but end up using the forum to mostly bitch about work and talk about what they had for dinner. This was much more the case at LiveJournal where many people took the “journal” part very seriously.

Which is fine, if that’s what you’re in it for. But I’m not.

Leaves and Petals will be the place for what I call my “pretty writing” – observances of things I come across that happen to move me or inspire me, and which I think others will enjoy as well. No work bitching, no dinner posts (I have a food blog at Save Your Fork for stuff like that, although it skews more towards food politics than dinner), just (hopefully) interesting and amusing commentary on the world as I see it.

I hope you’ll stick around to watch the progress.

Cheers!