I'm not a journalist, I'm not trained to be a journalist and to be fair I don't think I'm smart enough to be a journalist. In every sense of the word, you are a true journalist. Not by trade, or by training, but in the heart. This blog is your journal, an account of your real life, your reality, your experience. The myth of the 'objective journalist' is too widely perpetrated in our society, as human beings with emotions and opiions, there is no such thing as objectivity. The best one can hope for is fairness and honesty - your blog is the best example of pure, honest and true journalism I've read in a long time. I'm a student journalist, just embarking on my first editorship of our Uni newspaper. If I could ever write as well as you - as honestly, insightfully, and so much from the heart (rather than the head) I would consider my ambitions fulfilled. This sounds ridiculously flowery and pretentious, but I had to let you know, as a journalist, that your blog stuck a chord with me. Thanks for sharing.