Cooking to Cure Writer's Block

Isn’t it amazing, the way your outlook can change from day to day? You go to bed feeling terrible and wake up with good energy pulsing through your veins. Or maybe you drift off happy and wake up crabby. Moods can be as fleeting as dead leaves blowing around in the March wind. On the other hand, they can settle in for a longer haul, dampening your spirit and making everything heavy and difficult.

To me, this is the definition of writer’s block—a certain feeling of cut-off-ness from the sense of...