Monthly Archives: April 2009

Monica Seles: “Big on journaling”

April 27, 2009 – 11:51 am

Last Friday, NY Times Health writer, Tara Parker-Pope interviewed tennis star Monica Seles.  Seles was in the height of her career in 1993 when, during a tennis match in Germany, a deranged spectator stabbed her in the back with a kitchen knife.  Not surprising, that incident affected Seles deeply and she left the game for [...]

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Journal Writing and Focus

April 24, 2009 – 1:03 pm

During the last 15 years, my husband and I have taken a handful of bicycle trips overseas.  We’ve planned our routes, carried our clothes in panniers affixed to the rear of the bike, and for some trips have even brought our own bikes with us.  It’s a lot of work but carries with it its [...]

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Journal writing: from jumbled entry to meaningful prose

April 22, 2009 – 1:57 pm

I just re-read a journal entry I had written and found myself laughing aloud! My entry–hastily written in free flow– sounded like it was written by a barely literate drunk. Misplaced modifiers, a soup of typos, crazy shifts in tenses and viewpoints.  And I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person?! HA!  However, with some some [...]

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Turn your Journal into an Heirloom Memoir

April 16, 2009 – 9:37 am

Guest Blog–by Maryan Pelland
People who keep journals have much in common with professional writers, except they don’t get paid. Journaling chronicles what you’re doing, or thinking, or feeling, or observing in the moments of your experience. It’s not hard to see that the word journalist comes from journal. A personal journal can actually spawn the [...]

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Journal Captures “Divine Serendipity”

April 14, 2009 – 6:58 pm

Just a quick note to let you know that we have a new recording of journal writer, Owen Swain, who has told us how keeping a journal has benefited his life.  Here’s a snip from his conversation that I particularly enjoyed:
“I guess what’s one of the biggest surprises for me is that nine times out [...]

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A Tip about Intense Emotional Writing

April 8, 2009 – 11:13 am

Yesterday evening, Beth Jacobs and I completed the last of the four-session webinar, Writing for Emotional Balance.  I, personally, found the webinar to be really informative.  If you are anything like me there are times when you use your journal to er, um, er… shall I say FULLY express your emotions.  Okay, so sometimes, I [...]

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On Facebook!

April 3, 2009 – 2:12 pm

Just a quick note that LifeJournal now has a page on Facebook!  www.tinyurl.com/FBLifeJournal Come visit!  Become a fan!

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