Happy Birthday to me

Hello again, People of the page.

 I know its been a while, but I am still the same old boring me. Now just a year older....

I started me 42nd trip around the sun on this god forsaken rock as it hurtles thru space...

But seriously I have had a few wrighting prompts pop into my head. 

We will see if I can actually get any words put on the page and if I do I will think about sharing it with you all. 

But here is the prompt: 

 "What comes with snow when it melts? Spring.

  "Please let him be happy, and Ill be like snow in a world without spring... even if it's until I take my last breath."

Let me know what you all think. And let me know if you know where that's from.

As always you can reach me at chefdoug0723@gmail.com just put Blog somewhere in the subject line

Hobbies, Ideas, and sibling time

Hello Dear Readers, 

Once again I know it's been a while, but as always I feel like I don't have anything to say. As of right now nothing has changed except that I have had an idea, and I wanted to bounce it off of you all.

So here goes...

I am a consumer of podcasts as are probably most of you. And in the book review space I haven't seen many Black/POC reviewers especially in the romance genre, and even less of them are book reviewers. Now I am only a recent consumer of romance literature, particularly queer romance. But I have a sibling who is, and she has also said, "there are too many dudes with podcasts," so I asked her is she wanted to start one with me where we go back and forth recommending and than reading, and reviewing books.

As of this moment she hasn't responded to my idea... 

But what do you all think about a sibling podcast where we recommend and review books from all genres and, probably even the popular books circulating book-tok and other social media platforms. 

As far as what makes us unique. I am a bi/pan-sexual cis black dude, chef and avid reader of multiple genres, and my sister, a cis black woman who may also be somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum, (she is my little sister, I'm not that deep in her sex life. Ewww...), she also happens to be a writer of romance, and a less avid or diverse reader.

So dear readers feel free to email me ideas and stuff chefdoug0723@gmail.com put blog somewhere in the subject.

Also my idea for the first book is to make her cry and read The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. Also let me know if you folks would like a full solo review of it or any of the books I'm reading lately.

As always Thanks for reading and I'll be back soon ish. Sooner if I get some feedback... much love

As always Thanks for your time. Love you all, and until next time.

New Year, Same Me...

 Hello, people of the page. I know it's been a while. But I have to say it was recently brought to my attention that there are a few of you who still pop by regularly looking for updates. 

I realized after I started the YouTube channel and this blog to share my life, some cooking tips and things with you all that I am supremely boring. To have something to talk about, you have to go out and do things. I mostly don't, and I absolutely hate editing videos and listening to myself talk. Also, I've changed apartments several times since the last YouTube video, and my current residence , while perfectly comfortable and liveable, would make trying to film cooking content an absolute nightmare. Realistically, I honestly ran out of things to talk about. And with no viewer engagement I had no idea what any of you wanted to see me do. At the bottom of this posting I will leave my email address. Let me know what you want to see.

I have been told often that I have "Old Lady" hobbies.

I do actually knit and crochet and do have plans to cast on a sweater

in the not too distant future. If anyone reading this wants to know

more and get regular updates let me know.

I play tabletop war games like Warhammer 40,000(40K),

Age of Sigmar, and Blood Bowl all produced by Games workshop.

well as Kings of War Armada produced by Mantic Games

and Fallout: Wasteland Warfare produced by Modiphius.

And I am in the middle of a large-scale repaint of one of

my armies, and coming to a major decision tree for how I

continue with another army.  If any of you want to see

updates and hear about games played as the year

progresses let me know. And with several works in

progress I could talk at length about any of them. 

And in that same vein of painting minis, I also play Dungeons and Dragons aka. D&D, as well as a few other TTRPG's. I am currently in the beginning phases of setting up a campaign to run my play group through when my turn comes in the next year or so. I am also planning on running my siblings through a one-shot as 1 of them has played, and the rest are curious. 

So with that, I will leave you. Please email me at chefdoug0723@gmail.com and put Blog somewhere in the subject line, and let me know what you all want to see from me.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon…