Friday, February 26, 2010

RELOCATION!

I tried to send messages to my (four) followers, but I couldn't, so hopefully this will work.

I'm starting another blog entirely dedicated to writing, so it would be better to follow that one instead.

URL = JAGrunewald.blogspot.com

Thanks!

Friday, February 12, 2010

This will have to do for now

At some point (tomorrow), I'll make a different, more general blog that I will use for this class, but I just drove six hours from Vermont to New York, so it's not going to be tonight. In fact, I hardly made it home in time to write this at all.

For my capstone project, I would like to write a collection of short stories, most likely science fiction. I have been writing a lot of them recently, and I really enjoy it.

If that doesn't work well, I have had the skeleton of a book bouncing around in my head for a few years now, and I think it's about time I get it down on paper. The capstone project would be a good way to start this. I have written little bits and piece of things I'd like to include, but I haven't actually started anything. Is this alright, or must this project be done entirely in the semester?

Lastly, I'd like to work on my travel writing. I have stories and observations from spending a semester in Prague and traveling around Eastern Europe, and I'd like to write them down and make a collection at some point.

This is everything I've though of up to now, and I think any one would be an interesting project for my senior year.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Explanation

I've been writing about food for most of my life.
What did I do over summer vacation? Barbequed
with my dad. Christmas? Made lasagna with my
cousins. The only really clear memory I have of my
grandmother involves making pasta from scratch
in her kitchen. We're a big Italian family from New
York. We cook,we eat.

After I moved out, the part of home I missed most
was cooking with my parents. Soon enough, a good
friend and I started making big dinners a few times
a week and inviting a bunch of our friends. Family
dinners were back. During this time, I started
documenting the good meals with dates, descriptions,
stories, and photographs. I did this for myself, half
as a diary, half as a recipe book. That's what I intend
this blog to be; good food and amusing antidotes.

Now, if you wouldn't mind excusing me, I have Buffalo
wings and commercials to get back to.

P.S. If the line spacing is being funky on your computer,
I apologize. It works on one of my computers, but
not the other one. I'll figure everything out soon, I hope :(