A place for thoughts: Area residents use journals for therapy, collecting life stories. A nice story I came across recently, in which a reporter for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette named Jaclyn Youhana asks “Do many people keep a diary any more? When I asked readers to contact me if they did, I had no … Continue reading Indiana Diarists
This week’s addict sent me a link to her blog post about notebooks, posted at The Wonders & Scary Thoughts of a Crazy Mummy: My Notebook Obsession. I have lost count of the amount of notebooks I have but this picture should give you a rough idea!! There are plenty more but I couldnt fit … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Jade
An interesting article in the New York Times about the writer and performance artist Spalding Gray, whose widow read his journals after his death. Gray, possibly the most celebrated neurotic of our time, kept private journals throughout his long career. Kathleen Russo, who is Gray’s widow and the mother of his children, read the journals … Continue reading Spalding Gray’s Journal
Dillon sent me a whole bunch of photos of his collection… actually, half his collection, since the rest is being stored at home while he’s studying abroad for a year. I’m impressed that he brought so many with him! In the first picture, the bottom row is empty notebooks, and the top are notebooks that … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Dillon
Oh, how this pains me!!! I just burned 40 years’ worth of diaries. I didn’t plan to — or rather, I had always planned to, once I knew I was dying, or so old that I would soon lack the energy to gather wood. But I woke one morning and knew it was time to … Continue reading “Burning the Evidence”
Paul, a former Addict of the Month, sent me a couple of interesting notebook stories: First, a link to some info about the Jesse Owens Exhibit at a library at Ohio State. From Paul:Â “In Thompson Library on the Ohio State campus, I saw the travel diary of Jesse Owens, for his 1936 trip to … Continue reading Notes from Paul: Jesse Owens’s Diary and 5 Free Notebooks
An article in today’s New York Times about veterans being trained for jobs preserving public lands: Veterans Discover Allure of Jobs in Western Wilderness – NYTimes.com. This nice little shot of one of the workers’ journals came with it:
This week’s addict is a blogger you all should know: Laurie from Plannerisms. Check out her fabulous collection, comfortably (but crowdedly)housed in its own bookcase: She points out: Note that this bookcase is nearly 6 feet tall. Also notice most shelves are two rows deep. Man, that’s a lot of notebooks and planners! One of … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Laurie
Today’s addict posted this lovely shot on Flickr: Â Make sure you visit Flickr to see the notes on the photo.
A fun article in this past weekend’s New York Times: Calendar Wars Pit Electronics Against Paper. A few quotes from paper fans: “I’ve got an iPad, an iPod, I’m on Twitter and Facebook and I’m talking on my BlackBerry now,†said Nelson George, a cultural critic, filmmaker and producer, in a phone interview. “But that’s … Continue reading Calendar Wars: Electronic Vs. Paper