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I don't make New Year's resolutions. I always figure that I'm reasonably good about making changes at other points of the year, so why make a point of it on January 1?
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Un-New Year's Resolutions
I don't make New Year's resolutions. I always figure that I'm reasonably good about making changes at other points of the year, so why make a point of it on January 1?
But this year the changes I want to make happened to take place around year end, so I guess you could label them as New Year's resolutions.
A lot of those changes involve this site. Since this site is part of my food and wine writing portfolio at this point (which oddly I'm only focusing on now that I have articles either actually or soon to be in print), I think it needs some sprucing up.
I'd like to invite you, my readers, to let me know what things you'd like to see. Use the e-mail link at the top of the page. Here are my initial plans, roughly in the order I'm going to focus on them:
- Comments - I've found I like these on various other blogs I visit, so I'm going to figure out how to add them to mine. Blogger, the software I use, is perhaps the only blogging software at this point that doesn't support comments. So I may have to switch. This may cause some hiccups with the site, but I'll give ample warning just before I ransack everything.
- Prettier design - at least a better template. UI isn't my forte, so a better template may be the only real change.
- More pictures - I put all this effort into plating food, and only a few people get to see the efforts. Like I've said, it is awkward to do pictures at dinner parties, but I'll try and figure something out.
- More frequent updates - I'll do my best on this one, but my full-time job (plus the freelance writing thing) takes a fair amount of time. But I might spread dinner party posts over a few entries (like Clotilde at Chocolate & Zucchini)
- The return of Eating Well Cheaply - a lot of you have commented how much you enjoyed that portion of the site, and while I enjoy being employed, I had a lot of fun with that site as well. How I'm going to fit that into my life remains to be seen, so that's sort of a longer-term goal.
Anyway, let me know what you think, or what other ideas you have.
- Wine Blogs At The Wine Writers Symposium
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Photo by Melissa Schneider. I don't make New Year's resolutions. Instead, I set myself goals and try to meet them. Since I don't write these down, I tend to forget them, so that by the end of the year I only remember the ones I achieved. It's...
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