Life rarely stays on the path any one of us could or would predict, and for a blogger, it can be hard to talk about life-changing events with readers who only know one small slice of your life.
When Meredith Phillips began Church Avenue Chomp, the idea was to write mainly about the food scene in her neighborhood in Brooklyn. “That’s how it started,” she says. “That is not how it has progressed….”
Meredith talks about her decision to write publicly about her sister’s untimely death from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; aka Lou Gerhig’s disease), as well as the one thing that every grieving person wants from comforting friends (it’s probably not what you think). After all, loss and grief are universal concerns. As she puts it, “Loss is the kind of thing that you can either tap into, because you’ve experienced it—or that you’re so afraid of, that it’s of interest to you.” See what else she has to say by listening in below:
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