Linda
I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed with junk food. But I’ve had a recurring dream all my life about being in a bakery that’s so huge that I can’t decide what to buy. I frequently have to remind myself that potato chips do not count as a serving of vegetables, and that the official government guidelines for a healthy diet do not include dessert after all five meals of the day including second breakfast and afternoon tea. Even my dogs look like dumplings.
It never occurred to me to want to be a snack blogger when I grew up, mostly because when I was a small child, the Internet hadn’t been invented yet. But my working life has been good preparation anyway. As a zookeeper, I spent a lot of time encouraging other life-forms to eat stuff. And before that I was a college professor, so I’m good at telling people what they ought to think.
Now I’m mostly a freelance writer, writing mostly about animals. When I’m not writing, eating, or writing about eating, I enjoy lying on the couch with the aforementioned dumpling-pugs, watching Japanese TV, and reading comics on the Web, preferably all at the same time. Oh, and also, going to the gym to work off the snacks. (I decided it was a good idea to write that here, because now I’ll really have to do it, after saying so in front of the whole Internet.) I’m also an avid gardener, as long as you define that as “someone who’s always buying lots of plants to replace the ones that died.”
You can read my blog at http://wombatarama.blogspot.com, where there’s also various links to my non-snack writing if you rummage around a bit.
A warning: all my life, it has been my fate that if I really, really, really like a particular product, the manufacturer will inevitably stop making it. I often consider hiring myself out as a product tester, so companies would know not to bother introducing anything that I’m crazy about and that is therefore doomed to fail. I mention this so you’ll know that if I review anything particularly enthusiastically, well, you’d better stock up.
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