Also, your dress isn’t pretty… ha ha. No, I really appreciate your honesty. I should be so honest.

I’m sure I tried a couple of times to keep a diary, but never really succeeded; however, your very mention of the subject brought to mind at least one entry. Something regarding a ventriloquist dummy I think, but that’s about all I can remember. I always wanted a ventriloquist dummy, so it stands to reason I wrote something about it. Thank you, Gwendolyn, for jogging my memory.

I don't remember being "young'' or having a journal.

In my 20's and 30's I kept a dream journal for several years which awakened many fascinating settings which I'd never seen before. I used some of those images to write poetry. Since then my journal writing took the form of college assignments in comparative literature. After that I did a lot of introspection for psych courses I was taking. Since being retired I haven't done much of that. That is partly why I use agnostic and twitter. Also, I write letters to the editors short op-ed articles for newspapers near me. I have written my observations and testified publicly several times before the Hawaii legislature ... Mostly about environmental or climate change information or bills I either do or don't agree with. I get involved because it keeps me from getting bored.

I have volumes which I wrote as a teen and into my twenties. I chronicled most of the things that happened in my life, as well as musical and philosophical observations, doodles, poetry, etc. After college, I got too busy to continue, but it might be fun again.