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 ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. I’ve made the promise to myself so many times: I will keep a diary. I like the idea that one day, decades into the future, I can turn over the ...

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

Some call it a journal. Others say log, diary, chronicle, or notebook. Whatever the word, the key idea is that you create a written record of your thoughts, feelings, and memories at regular time ...

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 ...

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 ...