This year, I’ve turned Valentine’s Day into a week-long celebration and it started with a nightly viewing of chick flicks. So far, I’ve seen “When Harry Met Sally”, “The Apartment” (always loved...

Whenever I start a “formal” writing gig (as in something I write for money), I put on some music. Occasionally, a podcast themed around storytelling or making things. Something inspiring.

For a journal writing inspiration, I’m thinking about the difference between different kinds of loving. After all, it is the Love Month.

For the longest time, “diaries” were way too feminine for me. In the mid- to late-1990s, a diary was something to which you confessed your deepest secrets. It was almost always pink, and came with a...