Wreck this journal!
I have a confession to make: I love office products. Paper. Folders. Binders. The delicious feeling of organizing things. Making them look pretty and in their place. I have a pile of empty notebooks and journals -- some I've made, and others that I've purchased because they looked like the perfect vessels for my thoughts and lists and notes. They pile up because I just can't bring myself to open them and write in them, sometimes. I keep saving them for that "perfect" subject. When I heard a couple of years ago about Keri Smith 's book, Wreck this Journal , I knew it was going to be right up my alley. She produced this blank journal, with different instructions on ways to fill it for each day, to get people like me to break out of this holding pattern of hesitation and just start creating . As I said, I've known for a long time I wanted to do this project -- but imagine my surprise this summer when my 13 year old son Ben saw me holdi...