Discover the evolution of journals from ancient Mesopotamian records to personal diaries like Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank's, ...

I have long toyed with the idea of keeping a journal or diary. I like the idea of keeping a record of my life, something to look back on to remember how I felt about things in the past and see how ...

Most of us assume that learning another language is very difficult. You need special skills to remember both vocabulary and grammar rules and, at the same time, must be able to converse fluently with ...

From hospital stays to Shabbat dinners, a few lines a day became a Jewish way of reckoning with memory, loss — and the comfort of routine. In January 2011, I wrote my first entry in a five-year diary.

In May 2001, I spent two weeks in a Colombian town that had been taken over by paramilitary forces imposing law and order through selective killings -- what Colombians call a limpieza. I thought it ...

Writing a diary is nothing new. A number of psychologists have done studies showing that diary writing is far more than writing for posterity. Some scholars have gone as far as to say that writing ...