My Present to Myself

I’ve put myself up to the biggest challenge of my life.

Photo by Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash

Three weeks ago, I read Shauta Grimes’s article about posting every day for a year, and I finally got the inspiration to start writing on a schedule. I am fearful about the everyday commitment, so I figured if I can publish five articles in seven days, that would be a more realistic goal for myself. It would be about a 99% increase from the last year and a half.

I am so worried about working on holidays that I started writing this post over a week ago, so that I could have some writing ready to go.

I have wanted to write about my experiences in the food business for the last ten years. Specifically, I want to encourage more people to cook their food and know where their food comes from. I have worked in both the restaurant business and the small farm business, most recently working at a Community Supported Agriculture farm that sent out weekly vegetable boxes direct to consumers. My work has directly led me to see people that want to eat healthy food but don’t know enough about cooking to make this happen for them. And, most of us have no understanding of what it takes to make food grow and get to our refrigerators.

I figure that it will take me at least a year of writing articles before I am writing things that make sense and are worth…