don't call it a comeback

It's not a comeback. I'm still feeling my way around on the floor in the dark, only now my eyes are starting to adjust.

Here's that other post I mentioned last time, thrown together at the request of my editor, immediately after the Elemental post went up. There are parts of it I actually like and really I was proud just to finish. It's been so long since I published twice in one week.

I also wrote a third piece that week, a long form article for the Weekly's People issue. It won't be published until May, but I can't wait to share it. It feels distinctly mine. You'll see what I mean when it goes up.

first of the year

Here's my first paid post of the year, Elemental Superfood Seedbars: Gluten-free and Still Delicious, posted yesterday, the 5th of March. In defense of my (indefensible?) sloth, it was a hard one to start with. For some reason I felt I needed to legitimize gluten-free as alternative food blog fodder, so I started with sentences like "Grapes are gluten-free and they're delicious" and "Channing Tatum ate gluten-free to get into pants-dropping shape for Magic Mike, so it can't be all bad." Also it dealt with autism, so aside from being bad, lazy writing, it didn't feel appropriate to take that approach.

Anyway I'm happy with the final draft. Mostly happy. And the next post should be up at the end of the week.

Finally, somewhere in my notes I wrote "It's the difference between using MSG and sacrificing a whole steer into a beef stock; the MSG's good, but it's not a fucking cow." I can't remember what it had to do with the post, but it has sound logic, applicable to a number of things, and gusto, so I'm keeping it here for posterity.