Source Today marks the 2,191st day that I have been blogging on Eating Bender. Six years and 913 posts later, it still amazes me that a pretty lame post about baby kiwi written anonymously from a college student’s apartment could kickstart a journey that has lasted nearly a quarter of my life. A journey that has […]
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Five Years of Blogging Bender {Giveaway}
Five years. Five years since I was a college junior, secretly reading food blogs instead of doing homework. Five years since I moved into my first apartment and said good riddance to dorm food. Five years since I decided to try whipped banana oatmeal and see what all the fuss was about. Five years since […]
Four Years Of Blogging Bender {Giveaway}
Time flies. Four years ago today, on March 16, 2008, this blog was born. The opening post subject? Baby kiwi. Yeah. Things have changed a lot since then. 😉 I’ve changed from naïve college student to “real world” employee to business owner. I’ve changed from girlfriend to fiancée to wife. I’ve changed from food journaling […]
Reintroduction
Thank you. Yesterday’s post and the incredible comments that followed — you should definitely check them out if you haven’t already — helped me realize three important things: Passionate posts can only be written by passionate people. Otherwise, content seems forced. We read blogs because of the writer(s) behind them more so than the subject […]
I Need Your Advice
Dear Amazingly Fantastic Eating Bender Readers, I need your advice. Over the past few months, I’ve felt a little lost with my blog. Don’t get me wrong, I still love every post I write and enjoy the fact that I am not tied to any one topic on any given day. But there is a […]
Three Years Ago
Pour yourself a mug of Coffee Cocoa and settle down, friends. It’s time for a story! Once upon a time, there was a 20-year-old girl working as a nutrition department clerk at a grocery store in Scottsdale, Arizona. During the summer before her junior year of college, she spent six hour shifts replenishing the shelves […]