I guess I am probably not the only one who has recently become obsessed with Julia Child. Yes, I've seen the movie Julie & Julia...twice. I am currently reading Julia Child's autobiography, and I have on order from Amazon.com her books, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1, and Julia's Kitchen Wisdom. I've always liked Julia Child. I used to watch her on PBS way back when and found her entertaining, educational and amusing. But now...now, NOW, I can't stop thinking about what an amazing woman she really was. Of course, seeing the movie really helped glamorize the whole story about a girl named Julie, who decides to write a blog about her trials and triumphs of cooking her way through Julia Child's masterpiece of a cookbook, parallelled with the story of Julia Child's rise as a prominent cookbook author and teacher. Yet here I am just new to blogging and am contemplating the very subject she tackled for a whole year. No, I'm not going to be the next Julie and cook my way through Julia's book, but I am looking forward whole-heartedly to receiving that wonderful book in the mail for the pure cooking knowledge it will reveal to me. I have always loved to cook. I like to invent new recipes and flavors and my friends are always telling me I should do something with my cooking. One friend even suggested I start a cooking blog...this before the whole Julie and Julia movie. This on the coat tails of my conversation with her about how I felt like a deer, caught in the headlights, frozen, and not sure where to turn with what to do next in my life. So many ideas, yet frozen. I am a mom with two tweens and my husband was laid-off at the end of January and is still looking for a job in this extremely low market. So, in all my pondering, I've been trying figure out what exactly I should do with my time to make it profitable for the family. That's where the whole cooking blog came in. So, here I am. I have taken the dive from the pier, but yet I'm still not really sure what I am doing. I do love to write, and it is extremely fun to see my little stories published here on the web. When I think of Julia Child, I see someone who needed something to do also. She loved food and cooking. She made something of it. Her sheer determination is to be admired. Her work ethic was extremely strong and she had a zeal for living and loving. In a way, I see that in myself, except I am not that tall, not married to a cultural attache, nor am I living in beautiful Paris. But still, in my little corner of the world, I still seem to believe that I can make a difference somehow. So stay tuned, I'll be posting new recipes and ideas. It should be fun and maybe, just maybe, I'll take off into a full sprint down the information highway, leaving those blaring headlights behind. Until then, I'll continue pondering it all and saying to myself, c'est la vie! Well, I couldn't use Bon appetite, it just wouldn't be right to copy Julia!