I've kept a journal since age 10, when I wrote silly things about boys I had crushes on and girls who I thought had stolen things from me. Now that I'm moving out into the middle of the Pacific, to live off-grid near Hilo, Hawaii, from being born in NYC and raised in NJ, and then finding a home in Olympia and raising 3 kids, it's a way to keep talking to friends, to reflect and clarify and make sense of things, or keep in touch with that things don't make sense. You will notice I'm not a techno-brain so not very fancy with the blog design and features. But I do have kids who are and they or anyone can make suggestions :)