journaling prompts

A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: The Early Years

February 13, 2012

Last week’s journal writing prompts explored our first memories. This week, we move up to the next period of our lives—what I call “the early years.” The early years begin at roughly kindergarten and end at the beginning of middle school. For me, it was from age four to ten. Physically and intellectually the early [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: First Memories

February 6, 2012

What’s the first thing you remember? Do you wonder, Why do I remember that event, out of all the possible events in my early life? In my first memory, I am in a strange bedroom with sleek, blonde furniture instead of the familiar, warm cherry bedroom set my parents own. I am standing on a [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Dreaming

January 30, 2012

Why do we dream? What are the reasons for all the images and emotions that fill our sleeping—and sometimes waking—minds? The truth is that in spite of years of research and centuries of fascination with our dreams, no one really knows. We know that everyone dreams, and that when we dream our eyes move rapidly [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Giving What You Love

December 12, 2011

This week’s journaling prompts are inspired by Courtney Martin’s post, Give What You Love: Creative Microphilanthropy Advice, in Good Magazine’s online news page. I enjoy the magazine because it focuses on positive news, rather than the negative stuff—a refreshing change from the mainstream media focus. Anyway, besides the great coined word, microphilanthropy, which implies that [...]

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A Week’s Worth of Journaling Prompts: Got Courage?

December 5, 2011

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson What do you picture when you think of courage? I picture children and adults with serious illnesses who manage to inspire others by maintaining positive outlooks; activists for social justice who peacefully stand [...]

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Writing Through Emotions: Death – the Ultimate Fear

October 31, 2011

Halloween, All Hallows Eve, Día de los Muertos, Samhain — ritual celebrations of death, the end of harvest, and the transition into the cold, dark winter. The ancient Celts believed the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead to be thin and permeable this time of year, when ghosts roam the earth [...]

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