Lucy, I'm Home!

Hey there, 

It’s been a while. 

The blog formerly known as “Food For Thought” filled a very specific role in my life in the era of its conception. The world had shut down, I was a workaholic whose food service job was put on hold, and I was becoming reacquainted with doing things for fun after an intense two years in instrumental academia. I started reading again for fun, and wanted to reconnect to the younger me who wrote just because she wanted to. 

Thus, this blog was born. I looked forward to writing each day. I made a lifelong friend and met some really wonderful authors because of this site. It has always been cherished. However, dining rooms reopened and I rejoined the full-time workforce, academia resumed, and life started to get… unpleasantly overwhelming. I didn’t have time to read anymore, but I was forcing myself to slog through things “because I needed blogging content.” I was often pulling all-nighters to make everything magically happen. I was exhausted. Blogging stopped being fun and began to be one more thing that needed to be done. That was never the intention in starting this project, so I decided to step away until I was ready to come back. 

A lot has changed over the years. 

I married my Sam Gamgee. We moved into our dream home. Our two pets have multiplied to four. I realized music makes me much happier as a hobby than as a career, and I was able to fall back in love with it.

I’m reading again. I’m not just reading whatever I see is popular online. I know what I want in a book and I’m reading exactly what I love. I’m thriving. 

The only thing that’s wrong… I miss writing about books.

I’m ready to come back. Thanks for visiting Shh… Just One More Chapter. I hope you have a nice stay. 

Stay tuned for more!