Hello All

Where do I start?  I converted to Islam in October of 2009.  Some could say that that day is my birthday as I have changed many things about myself since. This is just another change for the growing me and a chronicler of the changes that I have/will incur.

I was born to a Protestant mother and a Catholic father who battled daily and then divorced by the time I was seven.  I ended up being raised by my mother and seeing my father rarely until well after I was 18.  I was baptized into a Protestant religion around 18.  Then baptized into Catholicism in 2001.

I have always been fascinated by religion and the differences and similarities of them all.  (Something else that I will be exploring with this blog from time to time.)

To say the transformation that I have been going through has been easy, would not be true.  One of my biggest obstacles has been giving up pork.  Never been able to do ham, but bacon, breakfast sausage, and other pork products were common to almost a daily basis growing up.  (I'm almost half German for goodness sakes.  I never liked beer, but I frequently had proper German sausages.  And that is what Germans are mainly known for food-wise, beer and sausages.)

I don't always wear the hijab either.  I've lived nearly 40 years of my life not need or was required to wear such a thing.  But I have to admit, I love how the hijab covers my unruly hair.  I can easily say that my best hair days have glad come about because of the hijab.

So, in closing, I guess this blog will be about the daily struggles of conversion, my personal view of politics, food, and all other things related.

In the meantime, have a lovely day.