Miss Lane meets Julie and Julia

Julie and Julia………..If you enjoy a feel good movie and happen to be a foodie,  this is a must see show.  I went several weeks ago with a couple of girlfriends and was pleasantly surprised.

You see, the movie, it struck a nerve for me.  Its about food and blogging , two of my favorite things.   Julia Child is the inspiration for this young woman in NY who is looking for meaning and passion in her life. She finds an old Julia Cookbook, The Art of French Cooking, and decides she will cook one or more recipes everyday for a year, until she works her way through the book and blogs about her experience along the way.  You have to see the movie to appreciate the transformation that comes from her love affair with food and her commitment to her blog viewers.  One can’t help but admire her dedication and understand her frustration as she struggles to fulfill her promise and keep her personal life alive during the course of that year.

You see my blog really hasn’t gotten off the ground.  I don’t have  a real following.  No one knows who I am. I don’t write everyday nor do I cook everyday, but I used to prior to my move this past year (BW- that is Before the Westside!) .  I mean cooking and writing are my passions,  so why I haven’t done what I love on a daily basis is really confusing to me.

I mean my story isn’t  quite the same as Julie’s, but I get it.  I don’t have a loving partner in my life, but I do have a fabulous, albeit hormonal teenage daughter on my hands!  Maybe my blog could be the single mother spin on Julia…….Called  Miss Loislane. ” The blogging single mother, struggling to raise a teenage daughter on her own and whilst trying to teach Pre K and cooking classes to young people while living in small townhome over the river.  Having moved due to circumstances that transpired over a year ago to a place where wanna be gangstas roam the streets, pigeons have taken over the neighborhood (and my rooftop), ants  and silverfish have decided to move into the kitchen and bathrooms and the gas stove pilot keeps going out. Now I have to break out a lighter before I cook and keep an oven thermometer in the oven at all times.   As for workspace and countertops   ….well there isn’t any.  There you have it, so the cooking amenities aren’t quite what I had hoped for but I guess I have to suck it up and make the best of it.

Okay, so maybe there is a  learning experience in all of this.  Maybe, just maybe, this madness will get me motivated to blog and share with my friends out there, and actually put myself back in the kitchen. Even if its not the kitchen I wish it were,  I can still fill my heart with food and love and then laugh at where I have come from and look forward to where I am going!

So here I am up late at night banging at the keyboard wondering what great commitment I can make for myself this year to highlight my connection to food and teaching . Maybe even create a blog that  someone might check out from time to time and leave an  comment along the way!  Welcome to my life, welcome to my Blog and hey…….check out some of the recipes sometime. You and your kids will have a ball hanging out and cooking together wherever you are today….  Make the most it  !!

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