Thinking about starting a journal or a personal blog, which is essentially a journal that other people can read? Here’s everything you need to get started on your first entry: Step 1. Find your tools and your writing space. Not everyone writes best with a paper and pen or with a computer. Writing is like […]
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The Number One Reason for Keeping A Journal
When I turned fourteen, two important things happened. The first was a big life-changing event: I got cancer. The second began as a small daily habit: I started writing in a journal. These two things had an equal impact on my life. Almost two decades later, I don’t remember what prompted me to start writing for myself. It may […]
The Time Is Write Now
I have been many different kinds of writers. I have been a joyous writer. A pensive writer. A prolific one, a stagnating one. I have written inspired things, and I’ve written idiotic things. I have been a successful writer and a rejected writer. I have been a humbled writer, a proud writer. Today, I am a struggling […]
The Writing Relationship
I’ve had a relationship with Writing for most of my life. I was formally introduced to Writing in kindergarten. I learned about her, letter by letter, and I understood her mentally, but sometimes our physical relationship struggled as my 5 year-old hand shook and cramped, holding the pencil over the special dot-dash paper. As I […]
Happy Morning, Happy Day: 10 Tips
Throughout the years, I’ve discovered several morning habits that, if I stick to them, virtually guarantee a happy morning and more peaceful day. 1. Wake up early. Before Edwin, early meant 5:30 on work day, 6:30 or 7 on a weekend/holiday. These days, Edwin is my alarm clock, and I’m usually up with him before […]
Parenting Boot Camp
Edwin’s first birthday on Saturday was a success! We had a nice evening with just his grandparents, aunts and uncles, and Edwin loved all the attention (and the few bites of chocolate cupcake). Ever since Saturday, I’ve been re-living the events of Edwin’s birth and first few days of life in my mind. I think […]