When you choose to write using yourself as the source of the story, you are choosing to confront all the silences in which your story has been protectively wrapped. Your job as a writer is to respectfully, determinedly, free the story from the silences and free yourself from both.

My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

My journal is my life's companion.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.