cindy johnson

Historian & Writer

Rio Rico, AZ

From Des Moines, IA

Cindy is a writer and storyteller who loves researching family histories and developing personal narratives. And she’s been doing it for many years. She loves people and is passionate about using her skills to help bring a deeper understanding of who we are and where we came from! Not only has she done extensive family trees for her own family, but she has been instrumental in helping many others discover their roots and make new connections as well, including reuniting one person with a previously unknown sibling who had been secretly given up for adoption more than 50 years ago.

Cindy holds a degree in behavioral science from Cedarville University, and spent over 30 years in St. Paul, Minnesota where she owned and operated her own business, volunteered in her local community, home-educated her two children, and directed several choirs and orchestras. She loved living in Minnesota, but those winters could be brutal. Warmer climes were calling her name! She and her husband recently retired and are now living where she grew up, in a small mountain town just north of the US-Mexico border, Rio Rico AZ.

Both Cindy and her husband, Dave, love to travel, make new friends, and learn new stories. Retirement brings the opportunity to do a lot more of that! It also provides time to soak up the sun, catch up on reading, spend much needed time with family, enjoy the mountain views and wake up to some gorgeous Arizona sunrises!

While Cindy has written many plays, musical productions, and curriculum over the years, she really gets excited when she can use her writing skills to bring clarity to understanding the connections, the moments, the mystery of how people come together. She sees her work as that of weaving together an intricate tapestry.

For Cindy, a couple’s story really is both a continuum of an ever-evolving adventure and the culmination of a vast number of seemingly small, yet significant intersections; separate histories that all come together in one unique story of life and love!