The Diary of...what?! Of Beautiful Enchiladas

Since 2007

Blogging intrigued me. As a writing teacher. As a magazine founder and editor. As a big-brained person with something to say. I made my debut in 2007, first on blogger and then migrated to Wordpress, and now I’m here.

I lived in Central Oregon then. The vast beauty of the place expanded my mind. Life there is lived out of doors and it was on a walk one day with a friend…she was telling me of a college friend who was really down. In an effort to cheer him, she asked what was good in his life at that moment. He replied, I have a leftover enchilada in a styrofoam box in my fridge. He, meaning to illustrate that was it—all that he had left. She got him talking about that enchilada, how good it was, how sometimes the best thing on a day is the perfect last bite of a shitty meal from a cheap restaurant in a down and out college town.

As she and I continued to walk, we spun out the idea of that one thing each day that can be that beautiful enchilada.

The name of my blog was born.

In this time of niche this niche that, I hesitated. Is it specific enough? Does it say what I stand for? Who knows. But I got your attention with it, didn’t I?

And even in my worst going through it times—when I feel more akin to the styrofoam box than to the beauty of the enchilada—I want to look for the positive.

Maybe that’s my niche.