Hello, my new organic friends, my name is Christal White, a new addition to the imorganic.com blog family and I’d love to take this opportunity to introduce myself.

As a little girl growing up in New Orleans, I wrote & read incessantly. I had such an insatiable appetite for the love of the written that I would ask for journals and stationery for gifts. One year I asked for and received the ultimate gift for any young writer- it was my IBM selectric II typewriter. With it I published my own newspapers, magazines, stories and poems and dreamed of one day having my words read by the world.

As a teenager fighting to assert my autonomy and independent thought, inspired by a well read copy of Frances Moore Lappe’s Diet for a Small Planet- I found my way to the conclusion that an organic lifestyle centered on vegetarianism would be my small way to make changes for the sake of the environment. I spent many a thanksgiving explaining my decision to forego the turkey and stick with the veggies instead.

As an adult with a toddler of my own, I watched with the rest of the world in horror as my city, my newly rebuilt home and everything I had ever collected was literally washed away before my eyes with a one-two punch named Katrina and Rita. It was in the days immediately following the storms, that I realized first and foremost- I am a global citizen, and that all of our actions have an equal part in the nurturing of nature. The images of how the storms ravaged my heart’s home, and all those in distress, still haunt me. Permeated into my psyche, they remind me that each small change I make, has a great and lasting impact. We can all be a part of that positive energy.

It is here that three paths of my life form one unique circle. My writing. My organic/green lifestyle. My post-Katrina epiphanies. All converge. I hope that you will take the journey with me. Share with me your thoughts and questions. Inspire me with your suggestions. Have some laughs at my expense. We’ll evolve together. My life is a open book and a work in progress, with so much left unwritten.