I’ve been toying with the idea of retiring mandikaye.com for awhile, and I’ve decided to take the plunge. I love this site. I’ve been writing here (or not writing here) for more than 4 years. I have grown as a person and become incredibly self-aware as a result of the community that began here (and [...]

Finally got to see Julie and Julia tonight. It was amazing. I imagine folks who saw it without having read the book first were less impressed than I, but I loved it. I’m reminded of the things that I am passionate about (food and books) and what I want to do with them. One day [...]

I’m loving this video. It gives me warm fuzzies to see my passion for something validated (even though it doesn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know). HT: Randy Thomas

It’s a new start, so I got a new look! It’s not done. Clearly the header/title is missing. I know! I’m waiting for the theme designer to get back to me with what font she used so I can set it up. But man, I think this is my favorite theme that I’ve ever used. [...]

So I’ve been thinking recently. Should I start chronicling my new thoughts and this new path I’m on? Should this blog become more of a skeptic’s blog? No. You know why? Because my life’s focus now is… LIFE! Sure I have thoughts about things that are a lot different than they used to be, but [...]

…the fire and passion for blogging, that is. I’ve been waiting for this for ages. Now, I want a clean slate. I don’t want to delete all of my old content, or get a new domain. Is there a simple way to backup all of my archives, and remove them from public view? Or maybe [...]

I just found the one good thing about the new firewall at work. For the first time in… months… I’m posting this from work! Theoretically this means that my moratorium from blogging may be over.

I’m still around, even though I’m not posting right now. I’m okay, even. Happy. I just haven’t felt the need or desire to post about a lot of the stuff I previously would have posted about. I’m not retiring this blog – yet.

So I changed my theme…again. I got tired of things not working the way they were supposed to because I wasn’t using an actal WP theme. Plus I wanted to go back to really clean blog feel. I updated my sidebars with tons of links. Now you can see where I spend a lot of [...]

Is that even a word? It is now. I just don’t have much of interest to say right now. When I do, I’ll be writing again.