I am a married girl from Nashville, Tennessee, a good city that I love living in. This is my blog. If people still read newspapers, this would be what they called the “Lifestyles” section. My interest in reading and writing is my mother’s fault. She taught me how to do both things and somehow allowed that The Tennessean was the proper follow-up material to One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish.
As a child, “Lifestyles” was my favorite part of the paper because it contained the comics, Dear Abby, recipes, and once-a-week column about new products available at the grocery store. Once I got old enough (about eight) to read the “Issues” section of the paper, there was a strong threat of holes in the ozone layer, acid rain, and other varieties of impending doom in the world. So from humble days reading “Issues” and “Lifestyles” while I waited for the school bus, my primary adult interests emerged.
Chief among my interests are food and the environment.
When I have a craving for a certain type of food, I can feel it in my mouth. The sensation of crisp lettuce between my teeth is very real when all I want is my favorite salad. I wake up most mornings with a sore jaw, and I like to believe that it’s because all my dreams are of food and chewing. I once told my husband that there would be nothing worth living for if I lost my sense of taste; he was justly offended.
Ever since the terror of learning, in the third grade, about the hole in the ozone layer, I have also been concerned about the human impact on our planet. I feel a duty to contributing as little as possible to our planet’s demise. Am I always good at it? Not really. My new vehicle is a gas-sipping little go-cart of a car, but I don’t hesitate to bring home my delicious leftovers in a polystyrene clamshell. If it’s eco-friendly and a fun way to spend money, I’m there.
The other major piece of my mental makeup that I should get right out front is that I am married and that all the daydreams I had as a girl about the perfect dude and the perfect house and the perfect life were a shadow of my current reality. I lucked out big time in the marriage department. And most days I remember my luck. We have a little house and two cats that my husband thinks I love obscenely. Every night I fall asleep quickly and dream easily because that is what I do when I am happy.
So visit me often here at I Will Always Have Food Today, and where I will discuss the pressing hungers of my mind and belly.
Well this is a nice surprise! I’ve never read this much of your writing all at the same time, on a single topic, in one place! We’ll have to compare eatin’ notes. I’m eatin’ potatoes and cheese tonight. What you eatin?
Nicki! You found my blog! You are the first person to lay eyes upon it. Thanks for visiting.