Seventeen years ago today I first opened a WordPress account and began experimenting with blogging. I had no great strategy at the time—just a desire to write, to reflect, and to share something of life as it unfolded. I could not have imagined then how important that simple decision would become.

Just one month later, HIVBlogger was born.

At the time, writing openly about living with HIV still carried a certain weight. There were fewer voices speaking publicly, fewer spaces where people could reflect honestly on faith, illness, stigma, hope, and ordinary life. The blog became a place where I could process my own journey while also connecting with others walking similar paths.

Over the years, the landscape of the internet has changed dramatically. Platforms have come and gone. Social media has risen, shifted, and fractured. My own life has also taken many unexpected turns—new challenges, new callings, and new ways of understanding what it means to live faithfully with vulnerability and grace.

Through it all, writing has remained a constant thread.

There have been many digital homes along the way, but these days most of my writing lives at NeuroDivine.blog. That space has become a kind of meeting point for the different strands of my life: faith, disability, autism, chronic illness, poetry, hymns, and reflections on the quiet theology found in everyday experience.

Looking back over seventeen years, I am grateful for the communities that have formed around these words. Blogging has never really been about numbers or reach for me. It has been about witness—about telling the truth of a life lived with both struggle and grace.

So here’s to seventeen years of blogging, and to all the readers, friends, and fellow travellers who have walked part of the journey along the way.

And, as always, to the simple power of putting words on a page.