I am knee-deep in this new blog and writing something every day.  Blogging, it seems, is now a habit. So I thought it would be fun to take a week and go back to some favorite posts and see how I have developed as a blogger over time.

My first post was, I am not shocked, called "I hate blogging."

And you know, I still do. In many ways I am quite sure I probably hate it more now than I did when I wrote that first post because in the nine months since I have started blogging, people have started writing about me and my blogging; I've teed up blogs before vacation, doubling my workload when it was already doubled because I was leaving on vacation; I've considered drinking whiskey in the morning because I write my blog in the morning and often I feel like I could use a little liquid courage to jump back in the deep water.

So, what's changed since that first blog post is that while back then I merely THOUGHT I hated blogging, today, I can say I know I hate blogging.

And yet I blog and so should you. Because the other thing that changed in this time is that I've gotten to know more people who've gotten to know me. 

• Mike Gebert told his readers that my blog was some of the best commentary on the food biz as a biz.
• Peter Romeo told his readers I was an "uncelebrated changemaker" of 2009.
• And Chef2Video selected Unplugged as one of the top 10 "Thoughtful Food Blogs."

And so I blog. And so should you.