10 YEARS!!! Can someone please tell me how it’s been a decade since I wrote my very first blog post? We’re celebrating today with this incredible vegan dessert and a weeklong OSG Recipe App sale for charity (deets below).When I started my blog on October 31, 2008, Eric and I were newly married and living in Toronto while I was working full-time as a researcher and wrapping up my Master’s degree.Life was pretty chaotic, and completing my degree was starting to wear me down (at one point I thought I was just going to cut my losses, throw in the towel, and move on!).

This blog was the most amazing creative outlet during a time when my life was lacking the kind of creativity that I absolutely craved.It allowed me to explore a side of myself that I hadn’t since I was a kid (like my love for photography, baking, creative writing/journaling, and just being a goof).My blog’s first tagline was “Food.

Fitness.Fashion.Fun.” Pretty epic, right? Lol.

I’m grateful to Eric for encouraging me to “find a hobby” after years of exhausting myself with school and work.He still jokes that my “hobby” turned into my career, so I need to find a new hobby now.(Fine, I’ll start my own animal farm! YOU WIN!) I find writing therapeutic in soooo many ways.

In the early days, I didn’t have more than a handful of readers, and I found it quite easy to talk about my struggles online.I was like no one is going to read this anyway! It was an online journal of sorts, and I

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