Frugal Poet's Guide to Life

Naikan (pronounced nye-kahn) is a Japanese practice that blends meditation and gratitude. The word means "inner observation," mad...

One of the best times to start a journal is during a special trip or vacation. And when teamed with photos and drawings, the same journal en...

When you read your journal, you want to hear yourself speaking and not some narrator without a face or point of view. You want to feel part ...

In male-dominated medieval Japan, the ladies of the court kept journal-style books under their bed pillows, used as an outlet to express the...

Another way to approach journal writing is through the use of "captured moments." We all have envelopes, boxes or albums filled wi...

Wabi-sabi , the quintessential Japanese aesthetic, can be applied to journaling and is, in fact, an integral part of true journaling, whethe...

Poet, artist, Wobbly and journal writer extraordinare Carlos Cortez quietly passed away yesterday evening in his Chicago home. He used to o...

Scrapbooking is highly visual type of journaling. And somewhere between the visual scrapbook and the literal journal lies the artist's j...

As the holidays approach, we're surrounded by a whirl of activity, but more important and if we're lucky, we find ourselves warmly s...

This is the third in a series of posts about using dialogue as a journaling device. Ira Progoff , the father of modern journaling, cited six...

I have a day job, but I don't necessarily want to dialogue with it. I may argue with it a good portion of the eight hours I punch in, bu...

Your body's wisdom can speak to you through metaphor. Writing dialogues in your journal can help faciliate the life lessons your body ma...

Jack Kerouac was one of the Beat poets of the West Coast (although he was originally from Massachusetts) in the 1950s. Inspired by the Japa...

I'd like to say that I had a fabulous lunar eclipse party on the balcony of my West Side Manhattan duplex overlooking Central Park, join...

In my journal writing workshops, I guide participants in writing "Letters That Can't Be Delivered," which are letters written ...

I'm not the world's greatest gardener, but I like to borrow seeds, ideas or just moral support from others' gardens to add punch...

If you feel you are creative, you probably are. According to studies, you often tend to display the following traits if you are a creative p...

Deena Metzger , in her book "Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner World" suggested, "When you think you ...

Journal as object -- which type you choose is a matter of personal preference. Some are large and scrapbook- or sketchbook-like with unlined...

Rubber stamps can make an individual impression on your journal's pages. No longer merely functional oddities that mark bills "Paid...