Journaling? Why bother?

 

Image via AS PhillipsWay back when...

It started with a diary, in elementary school, gifted to me on either my birthday, or Christmas. I used it almost daily, at least for a while, then my entries became less frequent. Part of that is because, when I was a kid, our household could be quite turbulent. In Daddy’s defense, he was a U.S. Marine, deployed during a good bit of my early years, to combat zones. 
When he finished his last deployment, he spent six months behind a desk, doing mundane, decom...