In 2007 I started a blog called Half-Fast to write about running and I created Scoop of Vanilla as a creative outlet to write about everything else that tickled my fancy. Half-Fast lasted for 5 years and amassed a lot of posts while Scoop of Vanilla languished from a lack of creative ideas. I came back to Scoop of Vanilla in 2019 when I was looking for a place to write again.
But why is it called Scoop of Vanilla?
I've always thought of myself as a very average kind of guy. (Can you be ‘very average?’) I married my high school sweetheart, we live in a beige house in the suburbs and have 2 kids and a dog. There's nothing exciting about me, I'm just a plain vanilla guy. So, Scoop of Vanilla was a way to describe the musings and thoughts of a decidedly unremarkable guy. Plus it was better than Bowlful of Basic.
