Pandemic Journaling Part II: Getting Started
Beginning with a fresh page in a blank notebook can offer senses of excitement, promise, and even exhiliharation. Each time you work in a journal, you’re not only starting a new chapter in both literal and figurative senses, but in a way, you’re finding renewed agency as the author of your own story.
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…