There's something particularly compelling about the way we live our lives in this modern world, physically isolated yet intricately connected. I work at home, just me and the cats, and that isolation engenders a certain hunger for human contact -- but it doesn't have to be literal contact, face to face. I IM all day with my husband, with friends, with authors I'm working with. I keep track of peoples' comings and goings via their Flickr pages. And, more and more, I lurk quietly on the edge of a huge community of bloggers.
I just spent unknown hours in some sort of blogging hole, jumping from blog to blog. It goes without saying that these are all food blogs -- ferchrissakes, I have to limit myself somehow (except there are a few others).
So, I share some of the news I've gathered (for those of you who don't already know).
Orangette is getting married! Her story is really incredibly charming -- her husband-to-be emailed her about her blog a year ago. He lives in New York, she in Seattle. And cross-country food-obsessed romance ensued.
Tara at Seven Spoons just had a baby! She (or, rather, her brother, posting in her stead) introduced Benjamin Thomas in January. She has apparently been feeding him spring pea soup and pea and ricotta crostini. (Actually, no, but that's what she's been blogging about.)