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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: When Violence Intrudes
We can’t avoid it. It’s all over the news and in conversations: wars, random shootings, gang rapes, knifings and, most recently, the Boston Marathon bombings. Violence, if we are to judge by news...
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Journaling Tips: Write Different-ly
In a rut with your journal writing, basically saying the same things over and over? Want to be more creative? Consider the following tips to Write Different-ly: Upside down In pencil Lying on the...
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Poetry as Memoir Form
Memoir comes in many forms, including poetry. Sometimes I forget this fact. To demonstrate how poetry can be memoir, I want to share with you a simple little poem I made in response to a writing...
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Missing in Action? and A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts for Writers
Missing in Action? In case you’ve been wondering — I haven’t been stranded on a desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Nor have I dropped into Alice’s rabbit hole or fled to another country. But the...
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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Embarrasing Moments
Suddenly realizing you’re naked while at school or work is a nightmare almost everyone has experienced. What if it really happened? Imagine recess on a clear, spring day in northern California,...
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Writing Through Emotion: Resistance is Futile
A few years ago, I was a devoted reader of Eckhart Tolle’s spiritual writings, such as The Power of Now and Stillness Speaks. I never thought Tolle was a particularly good writer, as far as writing...
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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: On People and Pets
Imagine that you’re standing on the side of a highway and you suddenly notice a truck bearing down on your beloved dog and another person, who both happen to be crossing the road at the same time. You...
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5 Ways to Reduce Stress through Journaling
Stress is a normal, physical, chemical reaction to danger, to change, deadlines, and the unknown. Stress can motivate you to action and help you meet the challenges of everyday life. It is meant,...
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Making Connections
A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts Usually, when I write about “making connections,” I’m referring to connecting ideas. Today, I’m writing about making connections with people, and about building...
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What’s Your Halloween Story?
All Hallows’ Eve — Halloween — has never meant much to me. When I think back to my childhood, an image surfaces of a dingy, frayed rabbit costume, handed down from child to child and worn until each...
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Back to Journaling Basics
In every discipline and art form, it’s important to practice the fundamentals in order to keep them sharp. Years ago, I was a competitive ballroom dancer; yet, no matter how skilled or accomplished I...
View ArticleHow (and Why) to Write Compelling Holiday Letters
‘Tis the season for sending holiday cards and letters. Personally, I love to receive these newsy letters from friends and relatives. Sure, they can be a little on the rosy side (who wants to write...
View ArticleA Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts for the New Year
We made it to 2014! Another New Year, another chance to reflect on the past, to start over, and to think fresh thoughts about the future. Of course, we have the ability to reflect, start over, and...
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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Control and Choice
I have been trying to write this post for a month — seriously. But one thing or another would get in the way: work, family responsibilities, illness, scheduled commitments. The very subject of control...
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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: On Fathers
The approach of Fathers’ Day, heralded by ads for colorful shirts, silk ties, barbecues, and heavy duty tools, makes me think about all the fathers I know and their importance to their children. My...
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Journaling Prompts: About Making Mistakes
Mistake: an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong: coming here was a mistake | she made the mistake of thinking they were important.• something, esp. a word, figure, or fact, that is not...
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Writing About Domestic Violence
Since October is Domestic Awareness Month, I want to help bring awareness to this issue while offering ways to write about how violence affects each of us personally. It’s not a subject we like to...
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10 Reasons You’ll Want to Transcribe Your Handwritten Journals
Have you been journaling for a while? Years? If so, you probably have stacks or boxes of handwritten journals stashed away under the bed or in storage somewhere. Do you ever ask yourself, What use are...
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7 Journaling Prompts for Exploring Spirituality
There are as many approaches to journaling as there are aspects of life to focus on; one of these aspects is spirituality. Journaling about spirituality can help bring clarity to your thoughts as well...
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A Little Gratitude Goes a Long Way
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton This Thursday we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the U.S. It’s a time...
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