I have a confession to make. I’m guilty of falling off the blog bandwagon after a handful of posts. My last entry was in May of 2011 when Jerry Lewis announced that he’d be retiring as host of the annual MDA Telethon after its September 2011 telecast. Only the once ‘Nutty Professor’ was kicked to the curb in August and replaced by So You Think You Can Dance? host, Nigel Lythgoe, The Biggest Loser host, Alison Sweeney, and entertainment reporters Jann Carl and Nancy O’Dell. Ouch. That had to hurt. After 60 years of groundbreaking public service, poor Jerry had been replaced by a Brit, someone fit, and two blonde twits. But according to a MDA spokesperson, the annual event’s appeal faded with younger viewers who found the format dated, and how they could generate more donations online and scale back the telethon from 24 hours to a mere six.
Now, you’re probably asking yourself: What the hell does any of this have to do with your falling off the blog bandwagon? Well, you see, I found that by the time I wrote anything relevant on a current headline, it had become what Jerry’s show became: dated. At least in the blogging world. It’s obvious, some bloggers are a rare breed, especially those who pump out posts on what’s hot, what’s not or who got shot even before it happened. So, as a New Year’s resolution (that I’m already 3 days late starting), I vow not to worry about blogging on ‘what’s current,’ so much as blogging about what’s currently on my mind. I also vow to play more and explore my newfound passion for cooking. Over the course of 2011, I started writing a cookbook based on my mother’s recipes, and even auditioned for the Food Network’s Next Food Network Star! I was actually thinking of renaming my blog to Eat, Play, Write, but didn’t want to infringe on Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling book “Eat, Pray, Love.”
Hopefully I’ll be able to stick to my New Year’s blogging resolutions. Guess only time will tell…
