I just wanted to offer a quick welcome to anyone who finds their way over here from my guest post over at Michelle’s blog. I’m super glad you’re here, and I hope you enjoy your visit and find something to stick with you.

For my current readers, please go take a gander at my post there about leaving graduate school, and poke around Michelle’s blog a bit. She’s the When I Grow Up Coach, and she’s full of inspiration, fun, hard insights and conversation.

In any case, I thought it might nice to give share a few links that give a sense of who I am and what this blog is about.

The source of the chicken photo in the upper right. Learning about chickens on a farm. You can read more by clicking the “that time we bought a hog” tag.

I invite friends (and occasionally near-strangers) over for dinner all the time. It turns out, though, I’ll let you cook in my kitchen if you write a guest post about the experience. Bonus points for hilarity.

This blog started as a place I was challenging myself to cook 2500 recipes from our cookbooks, so I’ve posted some recipes I’ve tried and what I think of them. It’s nowhere near 2500. There’s not even 10% of that up here. It’s amazing, though, how much even cooking a few things repeatedly, and new things from time to time can really teach a person to cook.

Final link for today: I recently posted a little bit on gardening and self-sufficiency and how it relates to life philosophies. It’s also the source of the photo in the upper right, and it’s one of my favorites.