I've been doing what I do when I lose someone I love: putting their name in the search in the folder of my journals (which I've been...

Truly, Steve Arndt is the reason I am a part of what feels like the best, most thriving and supportive literary community in the country. If...

Today would have been my friend (since I was six) Peg's eightieth birthday. As a kid I always remembered it, of course, because it was t...

Robert Hill was my second close friend to pass away in a very short period of time, and I've been looking through my old journals for st...

I recently lost a very close friend who I'd known since I was six and she was four. I started to poke through my old journals, the ones ...

 I've been looking through my old kid diaries trying to find passages about my aunt Kathy to share. But I came across this, which seemed...

In honor of Father's Day, I thought I'd look back into some of my early diaries and pull out some passages about him, like I sometim...

[When I talk about "towns," it's a game we used to play where we each had a tiny town made up of tiny toys. When I talk about...

I was hoping to find a few quick entries in my old kid dairies to celebrate the advent of Leap Day. I've kept a diary since 1978, all h...

1978 January 27—I sang on a tape. I got to keep my tape. We got or had to find the write batteries for it. January 30—I almost didn...

December 31, 1979 Frank and Mom found a stray puppy and brought it home a month or something aft Gertrude died.   But we aren't going...

December 1, 1978 Edina opened a door on the Christmas Calander. It was a star of Bethlaham. I wrote a song called Christmas is near tod...

1982 August 13—Tomorrow we're going to Virginia. I'm bringing my ET book & story book, diary, Yes & Know book, Garfield ...

The one change I made to the entry is to put the story itself in italics rather than all the quotation marks I have in my diary, because it...

1978 January 14—I woke up. I ate breakfast. got the mail. It said: it is a chain letter. Mom helped me do what it said. We checke...

1979 May 16—I got the new hamster today he has funny ears. My Dad gave me the idea to name him Bunny. He had long ears. The hamster, not...