Better Late than Never

Can you believe this?  I missed my journal birthday!  True I wasn't feeling well, but I've thought about it and planned and thought about what I would say when From Here to There reached her first birthday.  Yes, of course my journal is female.  Last time I looked, I was female, too.  Men don't think like us.

I wrote my first journal entry on September 16, 2004.  It was John's weekend assignment and he asked what song we played at our wedding reception.  Here's my answer.  Since then, I've added a couple more journals.  One is autobiographical and the other spiritual.  Truth is, they are all about me and my relationship with life.

Wow, Journal, you've served me well!  and this week I found out that Kelly picked my name as one of her blogs for Editor of the Week.  Cool, huh? I never get picked for anything.  I've made a lot of friends here in J-Land in the last year.  If I were to try to name them all, I'd miss one and feel terrible.  So suffice it to say that I love you all. 

I really love having this journal.  It's a release for my frustrated writing talents and for my thoughts.  I'm pretty good verbally, but have always been better at the written word.  I started typing out stories at about the age of six on my mother's old portable Smith-Corona. I am always writing something down on this computer.  I thought a 100 gig hard drive would be great and I'll bet I've used up more than half of it already.

I think it's great that AOL has set up J-Land for us to play with and share our thoughts.  I'm grateful to my son for introducing me to you.  I sure hope the second year of this journal will be as great as the first has been.

Be blessed,