Anyone out there keep a diary or journal?
I kept a diary once. Well, not really. To get a Cub Scout merit badge one summer, I had to write a daily account of the comings and goings of eleven year boy for 60 days. I wrote not much more than a few words per day with pathetic stuff like: 'made my bed, played baseball, ate fish sticks'. Quite ridiculous really, but I got the badge and eventually threw the diary away. From time to time I've kept a journal, but it was basically for some course I was taking towards my college or masters degree. As a frustrated writer, I've always thought it would be a good thing to do.
To tell you the truth, this really is my journal.
The blog started as a place to display images I've taken, but it's evolved.
These days it's a place to write a bit.
To Vent.
To Laugh.
To Explain.
To Remember.
A digital journal with images somehow seems more natural.
ReplyDeleteI write my diary every day since 34 years now.
ReplyDeleteAnd I blog since 7 years.
I think iIhave a diarist mind .
I don't know which is more "natural" but I have had mixed success with journals.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen a Village Voice in years. Not sure that they are even legal in Oklahoma. I've kept a journal going for 42 years. Much abridged since I have been blogging.
ReplyDeleteMy blog is the closest thing to a journal I will have.
ReplyDeletei kept a diary from the time i was 13 to probably 25, then stopped. i still have them. i've re-read some of it, but some things i just don't want to relive. i need to burn them, but i haven't yet.
ReplyDeleteI keep a journal when on holidays and find it a good way to find info on what I have seen during my trips.
ReplyDeleteMany of us have followed your writings and photos with great interest. We share many of your experiences despite differences in geography. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteYour writings serve as a nice memoir -- barbara
ReplyDeletei kept a diary too as a kid, on and off and it wasn't much more exciting than yours lol...i guess my blog is also one telling of the things we have gone and seen/done...i do like your memoirs, you have a way of writing!
ReplyDeleteUnable to keep a journal, but happy, like you, to do an illustrated bloggy thing. It's less isolating, less navel-gazing. It's reaching out instead of staring within.
ReplyDeleteThe Village Voice is still out there?
ReplyDeleteI think a blog qualifies as a journal, even if it wanders madly off in all directions.
My blog? If only I could forget.
ReplyDeleteI remember when it was called Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine.
ReplyDeleteThink you ever could have imagined your current blog as an 11 year-old boy? I immodestly think blogs are a better incarnation of a classic diary. I must say mine's a vast improvement over the one I wrote filled with teen angst.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, you have a real Journal here!! I love peeking in...
ReplyDelete(my 11 year old journal was similiar, & i still have it. At one later stage of my life, when I rediscovered it, it sent me into gales of laughter!