Monthly Archives: June 2009

Gabriele Lusser Rico talks about the benefits of journaling

Gabriele Lusser Rico wrote in the early 1980s a seminal book called Writing the Natural Way.  It introduced a writing technique she developed called “clustering.”  Clustering is a non-linear brainstorming technique that uses the right brain, the non-linear, whole pattern, image-producing  part of your mind. The clustering technique brings the creative and playful part of [...]

Anne Frank’s would-be 80th birthday approaching

Next week, June 12th, Anne Frank would be 80 years old if she had survived the concentration camps of World War II.
If you have never read Anne Frank’s diary, I recommend you do.  I read it as part of a high school English class in the late ’60s, which especially for me, a Jewish teenage [...]

Keeping different journals–a dream journal, a health journal, a daily journal…

People who keep paper journals often keep several–a dream journal, a health journal, a work/school journal,  a daily journal.  I’ve never done that.  But I do understand the reasoning–it’s a way to be more organized, to be able to find the journal entries that you are looking for, and to see a progression of writing [...]

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