A few years ago, my daughter went to a church activity and brought home “Our Journal”, also called a You and Me Journal. It’s a journal meant for two people to write notes back and forth to one another. My daughters and I did it for a while but then we moved…and then we moved […]

Today is the day to start your gratitude journal. Make it simple. Make it easy. No more procrastination. I’m starting mine. Finally. Why? I had a bad morning this morning. I forgot to set my alarm which means I didn’t get up in time to get my work done before my children got up. Which […]

  Journal writing is more than putting pen to paper or logging life events. Writing in a journal can be cathartic. It can be relaxing. It can be evaluative. It is a learning process. We all know, from experience in formal education, that writing can be used to report what is learned. But the act […]

  I stare at a big empty page and I want to write. I really do. Hard as I try nothing comes to me. I can’t remember anything exciting that has happened. I can’t remember anything funny that my kids have said or done in the last few days. Nor do I recall anything particularly […]

  I love to write in a journal. I’m that person who walks into the bookstore and starts to drool.  Not over the books filled with words but the beautiful blank books with line upon line of open space calling to be written on. Okay, maybe they don’t call but they definitely beguile me more […]

  When I was 4 years old I handed my mom a paper with rows scribbles on it and I asked her to tell me what it said. She looked at it and, as any good mom would, she made something up that she thought would be appropriate. I told her that’s not what it […]