This year, I resolved to write more regularly in a diary. My inspiration came from Anaïs Nin, my favorite writer and a prolific diarist who kept a daily journal from age 11 until her death at age 74. ...

From hospital stays to Shabbat dinners, a few lines a day became a Jewish way of reckoning with memory, loss — and the comfort of routine. In January 2011, I wrote my first entry in a five-year diary.

Lust, cruelty and a desperate need for attention ... I thought my old journals would bring back warm memories – in reality they were a document of the unique misery and painful insecurities of ...

A person's diary should be a private place where they can express themselves without fear of judgment from anybody else, and it goes without saying that loved ones should respect that. Unfortunately, ...

I’ve kept a record of my life for 46 years, and I encourage you to do the same When I tentatively began to keep a diary in April 1969, I could scarcely have imagined that decades of my life would not ...