The Beginning
Writing is the most powerful way I know of to sort through all the inner voices. ~ Rebecca Maddox As a teen, I did what most teens did by keeping a small diary of my days at school, my crushes and frustrations with school mates, but it wasn't until my second marriage that I started journaling again...because I felt so lost, so miserable inside, and needed a place where I could find some small piece of sanity. A place where I felt at peace. For the duration of that marriage, some 11 years, I filled literally dozens upon dozens of spiral single, three and five subject notebooks, and as each one was finished, I placed them on my book shelf. I had no fear of being spied upon by my husband or step-children because they had no interest in what I was writing. I had learned a tip from reading about journal-keeping: what's obvious isn't interesting to others. Hide a diary, then others will want to know what it is you are writing about....