My most prized possession is probably one of my most beat-up, but I’ve never believed in saving the things you love. It’s an olive-green Leuchtturm1917 with dotted note paper because I had a bullet ...

Journaling is intimate, I realized, a close entry into a person’s inner world and chaotic memory. It is a manifestation of ...

As the past threads to the present, the eye of the needle either grows larger to allow in new hope or smaller to keep out the misdeeds of times past. While “Goodbye, good riddance, old year” is a ...

There’s a wonderful essay in Joan Didion’s 1968 collection, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” about keeping a notebook. Here’s what she says: “So the point of keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it ...

“Hello, I’ve never met you before, so it really is a pleasure. I hope the feeling is mutual.” So begins my grandmother’s ...

The minute you walk in to your new home, your mind will be racing with to-dos. Keep this overwhelming task list at bay by ...

For keepers of notebooks, it can be unnerving to invite the world to see the scribbles, ideas, and truths that were never meant for anyone else. For the Used’s Bert McCracken, keeping a journal was ...