Comments on: Make time to journal https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/ Writer, Author, Speaker Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:58:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Weekend Recap during COVID-19 | Girl With The Red Hair https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/#comment-118431 Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:46:13 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17587#comment-118431 […] I would ease myself back in with a weekend recap. Laura Vanderkam recently wrote on her blog about making time to journal during this time because we won’t always be here and one day we might want to look back on […]

]]> By: Kaye https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/#comment-118081 Sat, 28 Mar 2020 19:13:34 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17587#comment-118081 I have started keeping what I call my “highlight journal” every single day since January 1st. It’s in a 5 star notebook with pages of grid paper. I block off exactly 1/3 of a page per day (about 14 lines of the small grid squares). I try to write in very short form, not even full sentences. I just jot down everything I did the day before, any exciting thoughts or events, big feelings on anything, interesting tidbits about the kids or things we did together or accomplishments, etc. I look forward to doing it every morning and also know I will enjoy looking back on it! I agree that keeping it short helps me be consistent and prevents it from taking too much time or becoming a burden.

]]> By: Saturday Seven 122 | Inspiration for Quilters | A Quilting Life https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/#comment-117983 Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:00:08 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17587#comment-117983 […] me in this time of an almost complete unknown. So of course I loved this article on how we should “Make Time to Journal” with everything going on in our lives now. Also, this article has been shared by several different […]

]]> By: Liz https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/#comment-117946 Sat, 28 Mar 2020 03:16:43 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17587#comment-117946 In reply to Karen.

yes, by week 3 they’re going to know more than me about this new world! 🙂

]]> By: Karen https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/#comment-117897 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:35:27 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17587#comment-117897 In reply to Liz.

yes, I think the students were very happy just to be doing something that felt normal! I teach Victorian literature and tend to save the fun stuff for the end of the semester (in this case Sherlock Holmes). A couple of students dropped off but the rest came, had done the reading thoroughly, and were eager to participate. The prison analogy might be right–many students seemed happy just to have something to do that day!

Good luck mentoring TAs–that sounds tricky given that many of us don’t have much experience (yet) with remote learning!

]]> By: Martha L. https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/#comment-117848 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:24:35 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17587#comment-117848 I have one of those five year journals which is amazing. I’m on my third version and it is fascinating to look back on what we were doing last year, the year before, and so on…. I also like the fact that there isn’t much space to write so I don’t feel much pressure. It is remarkable how much you can convey in just a few sentences.

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/#comment-117835 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:15:44 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17587#comment-117835 In reply to Liz.

@Liz- yes, hopefully the experience isn’t that awful! But if there’s no option to go out and party with your friends, it can nudge a bit more time into the school work category.

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/#comment-117834 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:14:51 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17587#comment-117834 In reply to omdg.

@omdg – yep, the online community can be great. I haven’t been blogging quite as long but it’s still fun to go back and see what we did over a weekend in, say, 2010.

]]> By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/#comment-117833 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:13:03 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17587#comment-117833 In reply to Karen.

@Karen – I think 75% as good as being in person is a reasonable estimate. And if you think of it that way, wouldn’t it make more sense to do a lot of routine meetings and such via zoom so people could devote the time spent in transit that’s often wasted to planning the fewer in-person events much more carefully? Or maybe we could calculate that 2 zoom meetings would then be 50% better than one in person meeting, and if we can save time on transit to devote to having the second meeting, we’d come out ahead…

]]> By: omdg https://lauravanderkam.com/2020/03/make-time-to-journal/#comment-117830 Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:48:56 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=17587#comment-117830 I’ve been blogging since 2005. Not a “branded” blog, more of an online journal. And I’ve thought many many times that perhaps I shouldn’t do it anymore because what if someone reads it and finds it me off putting. But I have found it so lovely to be able to go back and read about what I was thinking during earlier parts of my life. I can’t imaging stopping. The community is nice too.

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