TAG: journaling
The many ways and whys of journaling
Posted in Explore and Discover on February 11, 2021 at 6:00 am
BY CAITLIN WHEELER When choosing to journal, you may find that there is one looming question that’s liable to trip you up before you’ve even begun: Why am I journaling? Not knowing why you’re journaling may confuse your writing. Your answer to “why” will likely affect your content, your frequency, your audience, and perhaps most […]
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The importance of diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies for our empathy and history
Posted in Explore and Discover, Uncategorized on August 26, 2020 at 6:00 am
BY CAITLIN WHEELER I had wanted to be a diarist as a child, but having grown up on Dear America and Royal Diaries, I felt like my 90s school bus experiences weren’t interesting enough. I have since realized that my attitude about my journal writing continued into adulthood, and yet I’ve also considered sharing with […]
Tags: autobiography, diary, empathy, historians, history, journaling, memoir, reading, self, understanding, writing
