Le Creuset Giveaway

Don't forget to enter the Le Creuset giveaway. The deadline is July 1st. You can leave a comment here or HERE or HERE. Each comment (no limit) counts as as entry. Just tell me why you'd love this pan. By the way, it's kiwi. :-)

You may have noticed , but my blog is on hiatus until September. I'm working on a new book, which will be published in 2012 (just in time for the Mayan prophecy, my mother says...but I'm going to think positive). Foodie Friday will still be here. Also, I pop in on Facebook from time to time. So far, this summer has been a repeat of last year, with windows spontaneously shattering, escape artist goats, illness, and general household brokebackness. Whether it's blogging, journaling, or writing a novel, we all must deal with obligations, deadlines, interruptions...and the unexpected. When you try to control your environment, when you strive to minimize speedbumps that pull you away from a project (and most writers will tell you that the hardest part of writing is picking up that pen), a funny thing happens...control doesn't work. Creativity doesn't respond well to a chokehold. Creativity knows that life springs from everything. The only thing within our control is how we respond. Naturally that's the hardest part.
I keep a Zen saying on my bulletin board:

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now put water into a cup; it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle; it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend."

Speaking of water, if you are participating in Foodie Friday, add your information. If you need help, click on the tutorial.