Just in case you ever wondered, I make no money in ANY way from this site. It’s not incentivized at all-no Amazon affiliates or any other such nonsense. I weirdly have NO financial side-hustle going at all in my life, but that’s neither here nor there. The point is, if I mention some brand of tea or food in passing that I happen to use, it’s because I LIKE IT, not because I’m trying to sell you something. We clear?
Also along these lines, I’m an ordinary person. What I mean by this: I’m NOT a professional writer to try to get you to buy my latest book of poetry or cookbook. If I write about food and go on occasional rants, I’m doing so as a USER, someone who knows their way around a kitchen for sure and has a local rep maybe, but I don’t do this for money and haven’t been classically trained. I cook out of necessity and love. My kitchen looks like someone actually uses it. I also don’t look like I just stepped off the cover of (insert the latest fashion mag) in said kitchen.
This is written in reaction to yet another bad food blog experience AND to wordpress’s persistence in suggesting that I too can use my site to make big bucks, if only I’d get with the program. (By which I’m assuming that means somehow WORDPRESS gets part of this, else why would it care?) But here’s the thing-I’m supremely uninterested in doing so. Shocker, I know. But though I have times when I struggle a bit, I’m okay with how my life is arranged. I can afford food, tea, and cover what I need to for myself and whippet. I do not want to bow down to Amazon or Google or the like. They can call it partnering all they want. I don’t want them on MY site. I know, I know. Twig against the tide. But that’s me.
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