Why An Alphabet for ... ?

Three years after receiving it, I've finally reached the last book in M.F.K. Fisher's The Art of Eating. A 750 page trade paperback is not exactly easy to carry around. After years of wanting to start a blog but not having an interesting topic or time--grad school, earning a living, etc.--I now have both. Fisher's An Alphabet for Gourmets has inspired me to pick a letter a day and write about a topic and my unemployed state ... not hard to figure out.

What topics will I write about? Endless topics! Since I'm eight months in, pregnancy. Then probably babies, though that's been covered by several bloggers already. Other topics: Cities I love, trips I want to take, favorite meals/restaurants, favorite books, recipes, triathlons or marathons (A is for Advil, G is for Gu), advertising, famous women in history, and even my grandmother's house. I like a lot of things and I like to do research, so I'm looking forward to getting this started.