…and what else?
Is there anyone out there…there…there…?
Hi friends. I hope you’re doing well.
Saying that it’s been a while since I’ve been on here is an understatement. I’m happy to report that I am still alive and well and based on my last post to this blog, I’ve gone through a TON of life changes, updates, milestones. Much to my family and friends unspoken disappointment, I am still single BUT I’m at least still employed, albeit with a different company since my last check-in but employed nonetheless.
I’m still baking! It is still and will always be a lifelong passion (along with writing) and it’s one of the reasons why I’m back here.
Which leads to the burning question, I’m assuming anyone who has stumbled across this blog is wondering is why am I blogging again after all these years?
I think for many of us who survived the last three years, life has been put into a different perspective. I’ve done a lot of self-reflection especially in the past year now that my mind isn’t in survival mode with the constant worry of job stability and security. And now, with 35 looming at just a month away, I’ve realized that there’s much more I want to do with my life while I have the energy and the mind to do it. The biggest question that’s been on my mind is “What else?”
I looked at my past posts and the one post that struck me the most was Daily vs Weekly: blogger conundrums and sweet notes:
I really want to define the purpose of this blog. I know it’s a food blog for sure. But what else? I think I know where I want to go with this blog in terms of chronicling both my journey to a career and entrepreneurship. I guess it’s down to mapping it all out only to eventually toss the map out the window and go for it.
I’d like to think that I’m now 5 years wiser since 2018 me.
Of course I’m not wiser without the fair share of dumpster fires I encountered along the way. Whenever I’ve thought back to this blog along with my small baking business I have on the side, I always thought of the family members that I lost when I was younger and in recent years either due to the damn virus, that I won’t give more air-time than this, or to old age. My grandmother in the Philippines reached the golden age of 101 before her passing in 2022!
So again I ask, what else?
At its heart, American Kaldero was meant to honor my heritage as a Filipino American and I guess chronicle food adventures and this dream of entrepreneurship as a baker/cake artist. Never had I imagined, 5 years ago, that I’d have had the career I have now and I deep down I know it’s not a career I see myself in 5 years from now. Every time the topic comes up among friends and family of when am I going to really launch by business and potentially open up a space to sell desserts and baked goods, the answer has always been eventually. Lately, however, I’ve been putting a timeline on the idea of “eventually” and narrowed it down to the next five years. Up until recently, I struggled to narrow down what exactly I’d be offering that could put me above the fold.
The answer was right before me all this time and I’m excited to share it all as I build up this blog and my business!
I won’t give it all away just yet, but I will say this, as I get older and a younger generation of Filipino Americans in my family are getting older as well, it’s become increasingly important to carry on the traditions and food, the memories and history that both bring and instill it in the next generation to want to carry on.
I truly do have a couple of projects planned for this blog that’ll connect everything together (heritage, tradition, FOOD, baking, and entrepreneurship). I hope that you’ll come along and stick with me on my journey.
Maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two 🙂
American Kaldero 