How do you spend your free time in college?  This summer, I worked at the Muskie Archives transcribing Ina Parsons’ diary, a ...

You are a writer. Don’t tell your parents that.” My English advisor, Professor Robert Cohen, told me these words as I sat in his office, talking about my recent turn towards Buddhist thought and how I ...

One of the scariest things I’ve ever done is read my diary out loud to a room full of strangers. Perhaps that says more about the kind of soft-handed life I’ve ...

It's Sunday. It's raining hard. It's dreary outside. I woke up this morning with a sense of dread. You've been gone for 40 years. I last wrote to you 39 years ago. After you died, I wrote to you every ...

Journaling is one of the healthiest (and most common) ways for people to express their feelings, especially among teens. But how would you feel if your mom secretly read your diary, uncovered your ...