It's about time.

For years people have asked me, usually in a rhetorical tone, "Do you blog?" A logical assumption. As a writer and Web pro: Webmaster back in '94, dot com entrepreneur of an interactive video series from 1999 - 2001, various new media roles along the way, and now a digital content strategist for a Fortune 1000 company, a more reasonable question might have been, "What do you blog about?"

My typical response: I have no time. And, as a single mom of three with a Silicon Valley career, yes, there was plenty to write about but I wanted a focus to my ramblings. An overarching theme. And my life kept taking me in unexpected directions so I couldn't make up my mind about what that might be. Then recently, it came to me. Write about storytelling.

After all, I'm always inventing stories. Characters run around my head daily during my commute through the Santa Cruz Mountains on Highway 17. I'm a notorious eavesdropper, listening in on conversations at restaurants, queued up for movies, wandering around vineyards during wine festivals, browsing shelves in yarn stores, and of course, while flying. Oh the things you hear if you listen carefully. But I don't just listen -- I imagine full blown storylines based on these snippets of conversation.

And then there are the visual inspirations of landscapes and strangers, architecture and food. Or surprises discovered when reviewing moments captured in photographs. Like this one:

Observing Signs

When I took this shot in Biarritz, France, I was focused on the surfers and didn't even notice the girl with the headphones striding toward the ocean with her friends. Or, the little boy hanging on to someone's hand -- his mother's perhaps? Found stories in the making.

And so I being my blog to explore the art of storytelling in a digital world. Welcome to my journey.