[yesenadam]

It's true about the olive oil! I left some in a glass in the fridge recently, and it solidied to a soft translucent yellow the consistency of moderately soft butter, perfectly spreadable. Why it isn't more of a thing I have no idea.

[DoreenMichele]

It would be a great way to make flavored spreads easily. Toss in herbs of your choosing, refrigerate. Voila! Flavored butter substitute for almost no effort.

[yesenadam]

ohh I didn't even notice I was replying to you. :-)

p.s. You said you've done a lot of blogging - where can I find that online?

[DoreenMichele]

I recently removed a bunch of my work from the web or simply stopped developing it. There is a partial list of new/current (not very fleshed out) projects here:

https://www.patreon.com/DoreenMicheleTraylor

An old personal blog with substantial content is here:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/

I also have an old health blog called Mic Eats on blogspot that has substantial content. Like the one above, it is not being further developed, but it is also not being removed from the internet.

I have a number of new projects kind of in the idea stage. When they have some content, they will be added to my Patreon site. I also tweet new posts when they are published, even for blogs I have no desire to list on Patreon.

[yesenadam]

Aha thanks. (Well, nothing can be removed from the web - still accessible via the WaybackMachine...)

Have you read Steven Pressfield's Nobody Wants To Read Your Shit? An entertaining read. Maybe will help you take it less personally that no-one seems to want to read/hear you.

>>There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this:

NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T.

Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional.

“When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with every sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?"<<

[yesenadam]

Sorry to quote this here, not sure if you mind. Maybe emailing would be better than being so 'off-topic' on HN.

"I spent a lot of years hoping that if I did something good for other people, it would come back to me somehow. I am currently realizing this was a really naïve idea"

To me, it doesn't sound naive enough! Sounds selfish.. Isn't knowing you are doing good for people enough? Isn't that something coming back to you? I've noticed a similar thing in people who say they believe "what goes around, comes around" as a reason for being a good person, without noticing that, well, it isn't really ethical behaviour then, it's an indirect way of being selfish. Christianity is infected with a similar thing re getting to heaven.

edit: ohh, also I guess I assumed you are new on here (like me), I see you are very far from that.