I've recently realized that some of my friends and loved ones are...how shall I put this? Blog haters.  (You know who you are but you probably don’t know that I know who you are since you are not likely to be reading this post.) I discovered this at lunch the other day when a colleague quipped that he does not read my posts in real time (Gasp!); at a family gathering when a friend declared that he does not follow blogs (I covered my youngest child’s ears.); and on a street corner where a stranger looked at me incredulously when I asked whether she’d heard of DosGildas.com (Kidding.).  I guess I assumed all of my colleagues, Facebook friends and family members—okay, all of humanity—would have signed up as Dos Gildas followers by now, three weeks out of the gate. Am I a blogging narcissist with unrealistic expectations? Are the blog haters in my life justified in their … [Read more...]

If you are one of the 291 visitors (as of this posting) who has visited this site since the start, you may have noticed that we’ve changed the subtitle at the top of this blog. It used to read: We are two Gildas and we are writing a cookbook and documenting every step—from inception to publication! Then while at my computer tonight, eating Chinese with one hand and tweaking font sizes with the other, it hit me. We can’t say “from inception to publication!” It’s not like we have a book deal! Neither of us has blogged for more than a few weeks out of our lives! Who are we kidding? I’ll change it to “inception and beyond!” But then all I could hear in my head was the 1980s Madness song One Step Beyond! So, I pared it down. We are just going to document, make a record and have some fun. Maybe even create a little buzz, if we’re lucky. … [Read more...]