Hi there and welcome to this little blog. It’s been active for over a year even though I have not dedicated much time to it. That is changing in 2012. Call it what you want – a mom needing a space of her own, a former writer’s attempt at writing again, a young woman beginning her 30s with a need for greater purpose in life – I’ll just call it a simple soul goal for 2012.

To blog every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of 2012 for 30 minutes. When the 30 minutes is complete, the writing will stop. No re-writing, no tweaking, no editing. Ok, some awful grammatical typos will be changed because I just couldn’t handle staring at it’s glaring, typo face. Its glaring, typo face. As the blog tag line says, I will be celebrating food, beauty and love, but I will also be writing honestly about the daily of my life in this stage of my life, and I will give myself the freedom to deviate to different topics if I want. It will not always be celebratory, but I know that celebration is found in authenticity, even if what we are honest about isn’t always so exciting.

There will probably be unexpected circumstances along the way that will force me to amend my daily-blogging plans, illness and travel being the chief culprits, but I am going to do my best to write for 30 minutes a day minus weekends and see what happens at the end of this year.

I hope I will be honest, and I hope at the end of 2012 I will say that I have grown as a woman, a writer and cook.