Comments on: A Peek into my Journal Collection and some Journal Keeping Advice

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:26:30 +0000

hello nahl! oh man, i’m still embarrassed sometimes! but it is what it is.. which is our life story.

By: nahl

nahl — Sun, 30 May 2010 06:37:14 +0000

This is amazing. I had “diaries” when I was in middle school, but they too, were sooooo embarrassing!!! Like beyond shameful, and whenever I revisited them years later they’d remind me of what a dork I was. Some memories were painful. That’s when I left it. I don’t know how to overcome the fear of coming across as stupid.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:57:29 +0000

Thanks for the kind note vee :)

By: vee

vee — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:20:26 +0000

Wow! I always thought I was the only one with hundreds of journals lying around & having different types of books for certain things.

I feel like I’ve met another me lol. I love this post & the advice you gave out. Thanks!

`=O)

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:30:14 +0000

thank you jaylin!

yes i believe that’s the conference. you’re a younging :) I also went to one a couple years later maybe 2004 or 2005 and it was at UPENN. it’s nice to see other people interested in bioethics

you can! my best friend told me about another idea of having a sketchbook for your coffee table that guests can doodle or sketch in.

By: Jaylin

Jaylin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:53:37 +0000

Whoa, the bioethics conference! Is that one of the NUBCs, by any chance? I went to the one earlier this year (2009), at Harvard. (It’s kind of sad that I was still a senior in high school in spring of 2007, because the conference was held at MSU — which I now attend — that year. Would’ve been convenient and really cool.)

In any case, thanks so much for the glimpse into your journal keeping! It never occurred to me that I could do anything besides putting a date and then throwing everything into one journal, which…is a real mess, actually. This has been very helpful!

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By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:47:50 +0000

M,
I want to print out my blog one day too but I also have 1K long true journal entries online at diaryland.com.

so much to do and not enough time!

thanks for stopping by and leaving such a sweet note.

By: M

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:34:03 +0000

OMG!

This is like awesome. I used to scribble my thoughts down on random books but was consistent. Perhaps that’s coz I wrote on ugly looking books of all shapes and sizes!!!

I dunnoe about you but while I prefer typing thoughts out(my handwriting is ugly), I really love reading what I wrote whenever I stumble upon these random books of mine. I amaze myself when I look back at the things that i wrote in my ugly handwriting (guys do not really have neat handwritings).

I have a secret dream of having my blog printed out in a book so that I can read and laugh at the things I wrote since way back 5 years ago.

I just find reading things on paper more soothing and relaxing than the ones on screen. NICE AND LOVING IT! (:

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:21:37 +0000

@jessica,
yeah I write the most when I’m emotional and they do sound sometimes pyscho. haha. but it’s therapeutic and also that’s what i mean about who cares if it sounds stupid/psycho. it is what it is and when you indulge your emotions on paper, it kinda dilutes your emotions/clarifies things.

it’s for your eyes only,afterall.

also to counter my negativity in my everyday writing, I started the gratitude. good to see evidence of good things.

book reviews are useful. i sometimes have NO recollection what a book is about. just the act of writing about it also reinforces your memory. i’m also like that for movies but i watch too many movies to want to review them all. My movie journal started off as a review book and I couldn’t keep up.

I tried scrapbooking a few times but I mess things up too much and it’s kind of an expensive hobby! Brandi loves loves loves to scrapbook.

@adelyne: haha I only have 2 boys in my life with books. the other dudes have maybe a section each. that’s good about Pony having only about 5 entries! I’m happy for you :)