A note before we begin

What Is This Book For

A place for my thoughts that is not my head and not everyone else's ears

I, like most others I think, was told that having a diary or journal was a good idea when I was a child. Even then I found the idea a bit silly. As a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old I thought that I didn't really have any interest in reading about my own activities during a random Wednesday as recently as last week, let alone a year or a decade later, and so the suggestion faded away...