I'm back...!

You know how it happens, you get busy...life happens. You think of writing something and something else more important grabs you...like your 3 kids! Then there is the phase of "I don't want to write...just leave me alone..no one cares...why do I bother?"  Then there are times, usually around the wee hours of the morning, you wake cause you need to pee, and once you settle back under your blankets, you start to think of ideas...a post! You tell yourself, "I will remember this in the morning...!" But you don't! You have a vague memory...about life, the sound of the crickets outside your window, but you just can't put all the ideas together! So you don't! You get up and proceed to make coffee and feed the cat, that has been serenading you since 5AM!

But now, it's the middle of Summer...months have flown by and currently finding that ALONE time is non existent...with 3 kids home...all day...every day! Even having a shower guarantees NO alone time.  They still come in the bathroom with questions or complaints about their siblings...!

Even with stating all the above, I do find more time to read(outside, early in the morning)...I love reading!! I have recently gone over all my books and downsized! There are some treasures that I will always cherish and others I have donated to a Woman's Shelter. Awhile ago, I was watching Nigella Lawson, now I can't recall the episode...but beside her was a book...I paused the show and read the title, making a note of it in my phone, I added it to my reading list through a bookstore app. See, I have lists, things that interest me, things I NEED to have.  The list builds up until my Birthday or Christmas.  That is when I get gift cards.  I then send my wish list to the shopping bag...

One of those books, that Nigella had...was Laurie Colwin's Home Cooking. Colwin's writing had me from the beginning.  I was hooked, laughing through various excerpts! Especially the bit about her never having a microwave.....!!

We recently took down cupboards and I decided I didn't want or need the microwave. The idea for not needing it, was planted in my head by Leigh-Ann Allaire Perrault, who on Face book, mentioned that she was redoing the kitchen and was eliminating the microwave. That got  me thinking, do we ever use ours? Ours was mostly used for storage. When I read Colwin's mention of the microwave...I knew I was on the right track!

With the need to know more about Colwin, I thought I found her on Twitter...it was then I realized that she had died! She died in 1992, suddenly at the age of 48. I was devastated! She was dead!! No more juicy, descriptive words would flow from her pen, or keyboard.....what was written, was written, that was it! Knowing this, I have taken my time with her book. I just finished Home Cooking, and quietly ordered the follow up, More Home Cooking!

I would like to get back to Twitter for a moment...various people have asked me, "why Twitter? What is it with Twitter, what's the fascination...?" To me...I love Twitter. There is a connection with other people, all over the world. I can reach various people, whom I would normally not have reached! I have received personal msgs from "famous" people. And today...after finishing Colwin's book and tweeting about it, I had a brief chat with "R"...who I'm assuming is Colwin's daughter, Rosa! She mentioned that Colwin loved hanging around on a deck, which I was doing while reading and waiting for my Banana Butterscotch Muffins to finish baking! "R" also mentioned the "fish head soup"! Through the magic of Twitter...the gaps closed in, and I was connected to Colwin...only for a brief moment. That is the power of Twitter...connecting people in a way that Face book cannot.

All the above is the reason that there is a spark in my creativity...it has been ignited!! And I will try to be on here more often.....