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I started writing about restaurants locally in our community Facebook group. At first telling about the experiences I had at a local favorite diner that I thought was underappreciated. After driving members crazy, as well as myself with descriptions of their wonderful meals, eventually I started to branch out to other places.  For me, it was a way of reliving some enjoyable meals without adding more calories (something as my photo can attest, I surely didn’t need). It was also a way for me to entertain my desire for more enjoyable writing than my everyday professions reports. The reviews were mainly to scratch that itch that so many of us get to write.

With each scratch, I was getting positive feedback, with suggestions that I should do it professionally, put them in a book, etc. Surprisingly, I didn’t get any that suggested I put them somewhere else, although I am sure that will happen eventually. At first, I took these with the proverbial grain of salt, or in my case a whole shaker full. I have been on the Internet long enough to remember online Karaoke with chat “friends” each person doing their best to not sound like screeching cats, or nails on a chalkboard from hell, and all the members telling them how wonderful they sounded. I could never do that. The best I could say was, “oh I like that song” and prevent myself from adding the “I used to” in the sentence. So, remembering that I kept writing reviews and kept ignoring the feedback. I had two members that I used to coach in what was the equivalent of junior high school basketball that were exceptionally consistently encouraging. Although I contended then, and still do, to a certain extent that it is just their way of getting back at me for all the laps I made them run, my ego started to listen, and the result is this blog.

Laps Anyone?

So, hopefully you will enjoy it. If not and you are exceptionally unhappy about it, maybe I will give you their names and you can make then run laps as punishment.