I am new to blogging and continually struggling to figure out this technology, but not new to writing, and I have to say, my life now in no way resembles what it did 20 years go.

Professionally speaking I have a background in journalism and grew up in a newspaper family. Like many bloggers, as a child I had a passion for story telling. I kept diaries and journals. Following almost any major event, good or bad — I had a desire to share. Later, in my work in newspapers that passion turned to truth finding. The deeper a story needed to be investigated the more passionate I became. It is this very theme, if you will, that has led me to my theme for my blog — simplicity. I discovered in my investigative journalism days that often it is simply mankind who complicates things. If one unravels the truth — everything is very simple at the core. And when we think of the universe or nature — it becomes more simple still.

You will find a great deal of my blog contains messages and stories of faith. I do have an unshakable faith in God but understand, I was not raised in a religious home. I could count on one hand the number of times I saw the inside of a church as a child. The word of God was more often spoken as an explanation of frustration than an acknowledgment of a higher power. Therefore my relationship with God is a very personal development. (Which I believe in order for it to be genuine, it must be.) While I am a single mother of two boys, they respect my faith and I respect that they have not yet developed a relationship with God, and that’s okay.

My own inspiration is founded on two relationships; my relationship with God and the relationship I had with my father. My dad, the first Canadian medical science writer for a Canadian daily newspaper (The Telegram) I grew up believing to be the wisest man in the world. I do not think he fell too short.

So please enjoy this little corner of mine. I will share my stories with you as they develop. And if you like them, please do follow me, like me, vote and all that other techy stuff we have to do in blogs, so that I do know–someone out there is listening.