World Crisis Seeps Into Precious Creativity Reservoirs

Like just about everything else, the growing economic crisis has yielded the worst creative environment in decades. Creative juices are at lows not seen since the Middle Ages. The Obama administration is being looked to in hopes part of their stimulus package will bring a Renaissance to lift the time crunches, workloads and creative blocks that have taken hold of bloggers everywhere.

Got spiders building webs in your Kitchen Aid mixer? For a baker, this is a sign of desperate, desolate times. As I took this photo the spider began to circle wildly as if building up her web or perhaps catching a bug I couldn't see. To get her to hold still for the picture, I blew on the web and she dropped to the bottom of the bowl as if dead. Is she dead? Is blogging dead? At the very minimum, is dessert- dead?