Can you write your way to happiness? A headline in the Review section of The Observer a few weeks ago. I’ve been meaning to respond but I’ve been too busy being miserable. So now I will respond and, as a person who has kept a diary every day for the last nearly 40 years, I…
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Retirement and diary keeping
A couple of weeks ago The Guardian’s Do Something supplement had an article about keeping a diary as a ‘something to do’. Being a regular diary writer since 1978/79 I thought I would be safe reading the article without feeling guilty that I wasn’t doing whatever the article in question was about – usually physical…