I have long toyed with the idea of keeping a journal or diary. I like the idea of keeping a record of my life, something to look back on to remember how I felt about things in the past and see how ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. I’ve made the promise to myself so many times: I will keep a diary. I like the idea that one day, decades into the future, I can turn over the ...

Do you keep a diary in good times or bad? According to researchers James W. Pennebaker and Joshua M. Smyth, most journalers tend to fall squarely in one of the two categories: Either they write ...

Whether it’s joy or anger, we’re wired to catch and spread emotions. Here's how to inoculate ourselves against negative ones. Source: Penguin I have long toyed with the idea of keeping a journal or ...

Resisting the urge to add yet another cute, printed journal to your Target shopping cart is one of the strongest temptations of this world. Every time you pick up a new, freshly bound option, you are ...

In May 2001, I spent two weeks in a Colombian town that had been taken over by paramilitary forces imposing law and order through selective killings -- what Colombians call a limpieza. I thought it ...

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Most of us assume that learning another language is very difficult. You need special skills to remember both vocabulary and grammar rules and, at the same time, must be able to converse fluently with ...

Dan Bragg recently published a book on journaling: My Journal: Remembering and Growing. Bragg is the superintendent at Legacy Christian Academy in Xenia. CONTRIBUTED Dan Bragg recently published a ...