Two Years of my Blog in Print

Did you know you can have your blog make into a soft cover book? Or even a hard cover book, if you want to pay more. Actually, it's fairly costly just for the soft cover one ($55 for mine), but I decided that every couple of years, I will "bite the bullet" and have my blog printed. I have three granddaughters, and perhaps they will enjoy them when they are grown.

It will be more interesting to them, I think, with the pictures. I also save some emails I send, if they are like a letter with interesting contents, and I copy the pictures I attach to each one, also. Perhaps it is possible to have these pages printed, too. I'm not sure. But, like most people, I don't feel I have the time to just sit down and write in a journal, so this is my way of recording some of the activities of my rather mundane life for posterity.
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A Little Advice from Me Concerning Journals

Want to keep a journal but don't have time? Me, too! I think everyone old enough to write should keep one. What I do is copy an email occasionally to My Journal (whatever year I'm writing) Not just any old email, but one in which I tell the person what I've been doing lately, and since I usually include pictures with such emails, I copy them into the journal page, too.

For instance, tonight I sent my 94 year old mom an email telling her about Audrey's party and the gifts I gave/made her. Mom doesn't have a computer, so she can't go to my blog and read, but she does have a electronic "mailbox" that allows her to receive emails and pictures from family and friends. This is the kind of email I like to copy into my journal.

When I started four years ago, I always made a hard copy of my journal pages and put them in a three ring binder. I've gotten rather lazy of late, and the last couple of years' journals are still just on the computer. But, hey! Even that is better than no journal at all. I find that I have a lot more to my journal now that I save emails. I tried to just sit down and write before, but I just didn't do that very often.

I'm a history buff and I like to read journals that people kept in the past--I'm interested in their daily life, what they thought and what they did. While your life may seem rather humdrum to you, a hundred years from now, your progeny will find it as interesting as we do Civil War journals now--hey, maybe your kids will find it interesting 20 years from now.

So, if you don't WANT to keep a journal, that's OK. Don't! But if you Do want to, and are just too pressed for time, consider doing it the way I do. And let me know how it goes.