"Simspice" is just short for Simone's Spice, not simulated spice. I did used to love playing Sim City though. Spice because I love all that the word entails, literal and figurative. Weren't spices the first known form of currency? I make many spicy things including Kimchi with a recipe that calls for 1 CUP of chili pepper for one head of cabbage. (Just tried instead chopped fresh ghost peppers-fantastic!)

I'm a semi-retired graphic artist from Ontario. I've had training and experience in: photography, hairdressing, bartending, real estate, graphic design, professional photo editing - photoshop, watercolour and acrylic painting, picture framing, astrology, tarot reading and design, and herbal gardening and medicine.


I was born in ‘63 in Toronto to German immigrants and grew up in and north of it. I learned a lot about cooking and gardening and being practical from them. Art and spices were not part of my childhood however. Making a mess was not encouraged but to be honest, what is better? Luckily I got to spend a little time with my grandparents. Herbal family medicine was a long part of my family's history, not an alternative. I learned a few things from my Opa who had the attic full of drying herb bunches. Tending a garden is just in my genes.

I got a chance in 2002 to visit the ruins of an abbey in Disibodenburg that Hildegard Von Bingen stayed at which was amazing. I miss the drugstores in Germany. Everything smells more like herbs, because herbs are in so many things.

My restless and curious mind has led me to many experiences and hobbies. Having undiagnosed ADHD really got in the way of a normal family and professional life but hopefully I can harvest this wilderness somehow.

to be continued…

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." Kahlil Gibran