Pandemic Journaling Part I: Reasons to Start Writing Today

I first entered into an on-again, off-again journaling practice at the beginning of 2009. Consistent writing became one of a handful of ways I coped with living across the country from my family, managing chronic (and at the time unnamed and undiagnosed) illness, juggling an intense college workload, and saying good-bye to my husband for long stretches of time as he was sent overseas…