An Old Friend

I'm no stranger to blogging. As a teenager, I spent hours every day pouring through blogs. I think the idea of having a life so interesting that strangers on the internet wanted to know about it seemed glamorous to me. I started and dropped three different blogs of my own over the years: one about fashion, one about food, and one just for writing. Looking back at my dusty, archived blogs now, I feel like an entirely different person with a different life, different thought processes, and different aspirations. At least one thing hasn't changed though: I still feel the same urge to document and catalog my life on the internet to leave a written legacy of myself. That urge was what truly fueled my blogs as a teenager, and it's what drives me back to start blogging again now.

My hope for this blog is that it can be a place where I write about things that bring joy to my life: food, books, art, design, my studies, and the people I love. The name for the blog was inspired by one of my earliest joys: the gilded edges of the pages of old books that fascinated me, as a reminder to add that bit of magic to my writing like a little bit of gilding. It also serves as a play on my last name, Gold! My writing (and my mind, I fear) has gotten rusty but I know that writing is an old, comforting friend to me. May we get to know each other well again.