Loss for Words
Loss for Words
I haven’t updated this website in forever. It’s been…two months maybe three. I don’t know what has happened. Well, I do know. A whole series of things, starting with frequent travel, bad weather, laziness, lack of inspiration and creativity, and a loss for words.
I was listening to a podcast about the development of the brain capacity of the human being. Well, the podcast wasn’t really about that, but anyway, a part of the podcast was and it said that the single most influential indicator of a child’s success is the number of words he/she hears before age 3 (that might be a bad paraphrase, but you get the point). The average child from a home with educated parents hears about 20,000,000 (twenty million) words by age three– that’s the total number of words, not different words. And I called my father and asked him if he talked to me when I was little. He said, “ALL THE TIME.” and I said, “Why?” and he said, “Because YOU talked ALL THE TIME. You talk more than anybody I know. ” And then I realized, it’s not that I don’t have anything to say, it’s that I have nothing COHERENT to say.
Those of you who have met me, who read my 25 random things (which were really 86 random things disguised as 25), or who know me in any capacity know that I always have something to say. My friend Baby Alice says it’s ADHD. I have no hypotheses to offer.
But I could tell you about the time in seventh grade in Mrs. Bradshaw’s class I was laughing at something, and the teacher told me to move to a table by myself, so I did. And I remembered something else funny and started laughing and she yelled, “KRISTINA!! YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON I KNOW WHO CAN GET THROWN OUT OF CLASS FOR LAUGHING BY HERSELF!” and out I was on my ear. Or about the time a few months later in Mr. Fricks’ class, the last period before the bell rang, we were all sitting restless, waiting for the day to end, and Mr. Fricks was pacing in front of the class. I looked up at him and started to watch him pace. He turned and yelled at me, “That’s it!!! GET OUT!” and threw me out. Three minutes later, Jeremy Derryberry got thrown out, too. I said, “What did YOU do??” and he said, “I put a quarter over my eye, like a pirate, and looked at Mr. Fricks.” He still had the quarter in his eye as he told me this. And a few minutes after that Andy Heltsley got thrown out too…
That’s neither here nor there. And it’s not going to help me get my website back on track. But I felt like sharing.
I went to Paris last month (and was in London and LA and Nashville and NY in December), and got my friend Baby Alice to take this picture of me on the street. I was pretending to be a Japanese tourist, you know, just out documenting my time there, since she told me she always sees Japanese tourists pose like this, and they say MOSHI MOSHIIII which I guess means HELLO…and anyway, I just wanted to say HELLO to my readers. I haven’t forgotten you. Someone wrote to me that they were depressed, and reading my website was going to get them through the winter. And then I dropped the ball, and now I’m wondering if that person had to up their medication, or increase their therapy because of my fecklessness. If you’re reading out there, you there in NYC, or if you stopped reading, baby come back– you can blame it all on me! I was wrong, and I just can’t live without you!!
But what I’m doing these days is trying to come up with a new way to present the website that will be worth your time, and will be fun for me. I am setting up a photography studio, so be prepared for more food photography. I am embarking on an intense travel schedule, so be ready for a bit of that, and well…design…we’ll come back to that.
In the meantime, write me with any ideas, like the nice dog portraitist (photographer) Meredith Purdue who shared her photography with me. Or the wine company which wrote for permission to use my recipes, or the person who wrote to ask me what makes me tick (! do you really want to know !?).
Until I get a regular posting schedule going, you can always check out my In the Kitchen With column on Fridays at DesignSpongeOnline , and you should definitely join my Facebook Group, “I bet can find 1,000,000 people who know I am in love with Crash!” (who turned 11 on 7 January, by the way. So far we are 999,929 short of our goal. The group is always looking for officers though, so come join!
xo
Kristina
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