My Journals

Well, I've been someone who has kept a journal since 1974, when I was a mere 12 years old. I've decided to make a project of transcribing these old writings and posting them online. There are two main reasons for this. First, I figure it will be a good way to preserve them offsite in case something should happen to the fragile books I originally wrote them in. Second, though quite honestly a secondary concern, I thought perhaps someone might actually be interested in reading them. It's not that I had much of importance to say, but sometimes reading the words of ordinary people can be interesting in its own way. I remember seeing people's journals that were preserved at the Flint Public Library and enjoying reading things about what regular people did and thought about as they went about their lives. And so, should anyone be interested, here are my journals, starting at the beginning: Volume 1, which began on Christmas Day, 1974. I was a 12-year-old living in Fenton, Michigan. I will update the journals as I transcribe them. Probably a month at a time. Enjoy. Or not.