We have come to the end of this blog. Like writing the last sentence in a journal, putting it on the shelf, & opening up a fresh new blank book.

This blog started as the Chinese Restaurant Project blog & then followed me through changes I never could have anticipated. It didn’t lead to blogging fame & fortune—no glamorous book deal or money in my pocket—nor even more than a handful of readers (unless you count all the crowds who come just to ogle one pair of cowboy boots), but it wasn’t supposed to. I believe—quite strongly—in the value of a shy, quiet blog that just keeps trundling along its little path.

So, a hug & a kiss for this old thing—& on to the new one!