I got done with this one last night! It seemed to have more pages than I expected. I bought this one when I flew over to the US last year. I flew 4000+ miles and top of my shopping list was a $6 notebook from Barnes & Noble.

This one seemed to be mainly about the books I was reading.

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Originally written and posted in goldmourn. Thought some people might relate.

Monday, October 13th, 2014.
4:00pm dear paper journal,

I know we haven't been close for some time now. I've been writing my words online when I've felt like sharing anything, it just seems like it ought to go on my page, you know? My (home)page used to be in between the covers of a paper journal. There wouldn't be 35 of you if that wasn't so. But there were times when all I had was you, the paper, the pen and thoughts I couldn't share anywhere else but with you. There are still some things I want to say that will only be said on paper but I'm so used to keeping it to myself and writing about other things instead that it just goes unsaid. That's why I'm trying to change.

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Article:

How to start a journal - and keep it up

by Keri Smith

I left my purse in my mother in law's car. It has my phone, my wallet and MY JOURNAL in it. I have no way of getting a hold of her to tell her I left it there. I don't have a car so I have no way of picking it up. So. My journal is left in the hands of someone that I don't necessarily trust to not read it. I'm such a sloppy mess right now that I've realized it's with her. I don't know what to do. I won't know what to say to her when I get it back because I'll never truly know if she's read it or not.

Has anyone ever had their journal in the hands of someone that couldn't be trusted to not read it? What happened?

Update
It's 15 hours later and I still don't have my journal and purse back. She told my husband last night when he got home from work that she would swing by with it today at noon (2.5 hours ago) and she still hasn't been by with it. When Mark gets home from work (another 2.5 hours from now) I will have him call her and find out what the hell is going on.

I'm soooooo fucked up over this, guys. I'm glad I could talk to you all about this- no one else would get it.

This is Episode 2 of my series on journaling! I'm trying to make one video a week but I was just so excited! Also, for some reason it wasn't letting me paste the URL of the prompts so I guess I have to get to a desktop for that but the prompts are here!



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I started my series on journaling!



Eeee! I was so nervous! I hope I'm not too boring!

"• Draw a row of pumpkins along the top of your page. Below them, write about your greatest fear and how you can overcome it. . ."

So uh. I might have cheated a little on this one.

I'm not sorry.

the challenge of October
to write in a paper journal everyday
for me it is habit
but it was not always so

i began as a teenager
as so many do
but it was always sporadic
too busy - too tired
life got in the way of writing

then i had a baby
my journal was the only place
i could speak my truth
about motherhood
tired as i was
my journal was my trusted place

and so it became habit
and grew
a place to shape my life

i am impressed
with those who share their journals
the cleverness
the honesty
the creativity

the site potusgeeks has been writing
about presidents who journaled
John Quincy Adams
who began to journal at age 12
wrote his last entry
a poem unfinished about a pen