It occurred to me last night that next year- 2015, less than two weeks away-
will mark 50 years of my writing in/to my journal... my alter ego, my
nonjudgemental friend! Yup, you guessed it; I started writing before I was born!
I started at the age of 11. I had just read Anne Frank's Diary and felt inspired. My first diary was a little
tiny book with "1965" on the cover, with like three or four lines a day. Over the years, I
destroyed a couple volumes in fits of adolescent angst- and not-so adolescent angst- but I've kept writing
pretty consistently. I started calling it a "journal" instead of a "diary" because the
word journal sounded cooler.
From the first time I started using a computer in 1994 with Windows 3.1, my
imagination was sparked. I wondered how I could go about keeping my journal on
the computer. I don't remember when it was that I discovered David's wonderful
program, but I got hooked pretty fast. What pleased me the most about it (still
does) was how a writer can personalize it and make it their own.
Fifty years! Whew! I'm trying to figure out how to celebrate such a milestone.
I mean I think it's a big deal even if no one else does! And I feel like maybe
I should do something cool to commemorate it, but I haven't the foggiest idea
what that would be…
So I am actively seeking suggestions!
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Be Well,
Julie
Founder and Whiner-in-Chief
Survivors of Nearly Every Rotten Thing
(S.N.E.R.T.s)
If there are no dogs in Heaven,
then when I die I want to go where they went.
~ Will Rogers
