Setting a resolution to write daily -- or even weekly, or monthly -- for the New Year is an achievable and beneficial personal goal to set . It doesn't deprive you of food, it doesn't require a membership anywhere, the cost is cheaper than a latte and it's a fairly quiet agreement between you and yourself. When people ask me how to get started, keep motivated and make … [Read more...]
If I had a choice in the matter, I'd rig all of my journals to blind anyone who dared open them without permission by a light more blazing than the sun. I think one of the struggles everyone who journals on a personal level encounters is the possibility of someone, whether stranger or close, could read their inner most thoughts. I know it's always been a real concern of … [Read more...]
When you sit down to write your next journal entry, picture this... In 10 years from now, your older self opens your current journal to revisit the past and reads about what it was like in their life during the summer of 2012. That older version of you will want to know what they were thinking, doing, feeling and experiencing in 2012, so it's up to the current you to be … [Read more...]
I love the world of Etsy. For a person looking for original, different and unique, Etsy is like the one stop shopping center in coolness. For someone like me who lives in a town that thinks Hallmark is the only stationery option, I can't express how thrilled I was when I first came across Etsy. My debit card on the other hand, tries to run and hide when I visit … [Read more...]