• July 18 & 31, 1996

    What I’m doing and why I’m doing it—Journaling for Mental Health: A 30-Year Journey I’m scared. My mom called and said my dad was offered a DM spot in 3 different locations. He was already offered a spot in Miami, but he turned it down. (Because of the crime rate). But 1 of the 3…

  • July 5, 1996

    What I’m doing and why I’m doing it–Journaling for Mental Health: A 30-Year Journey My sister Jenny is here. She’s going to go to Florida with us (I think I told you). She got my birthday presents, one box was filled with bad ass stuff. All “in style” kind of things. In other words, model…

  • Things My Secretary Doesn’t Know (part 3)

    I’m perpetually fascinated at my age. Mainly because I don’t feel like I’m 42. I don’t think I act like I’m 42. My idea of people my age are based on what I thought of 40 year olds when I was a kid. They’re old! Now that I am one, I just don’t identify as…

  • January 17, 1996

    What I’m doing and why I’m doing it–Journaling for Mental Health: A 30-Year Journey The last few days has been pretty dead. Other than me and boyfriend #2 weaving in and out of friendship. I sent some of my best (writing) work to 3 contests and a magazine. That’s the first step to becoming a…

  • Senior Year vs. Now

    I’ve written before about going back and reading all of my journals. I’m doing something important with them. But in order to do that, I had to get all of them out of the foot locker/trunk that I have kept them in since I first went to college. In that trunk was a collection of…

  • The return of high school on Facebook

    In a previous post, I described how I am going back and reading through all of my old journals. There are 38 completely filled up. I’m writing in #39 right now. Yesterday I read volume 7. At that point in my life, when I was filling up #7, I was finishing my sophomore year of…