Blog - A Room of My Own

2026
10 Mar What My 2025 Journal Taught Me
3 Mar Why I Stopped Writing Weekly Notes
11 Feb I Choose Living Over Documenting
5 Feb A Note on Blogging Anonymously
30 Jan On Leaving, Starting Over, and Not Living in Fear
28 Jan Where Most of My Energy Goes These Days
17 Jan My Photo Management and Memory Keeping Workflow
12 Jan My 2026 Direction (Not Goals)
10 Jan On the Compulsion to Record
9 Jan You’re Always Choosing How You Live
7 Jan Apparently I’ve Been “Interstitial” Journaling All Along
5 Jan Where I Keep My “Bookmarks”
4 Jan Old-School Career Advice That Still Works
3 Jan One Year With Bear
2 Jan My Digital Workflow (Jan 2026 Edition)
1 Jan My App Defaults (Jan 2026 Edition)
2025
30 Dec Ambition Without Sacrifice
29 Dec How I Use Day One to Track What I Read
21 Dec I Journaled My TV and Movie Watching for a Year
21 Nov My One-Board Trello Task Management System
19 Nov Letting Go of My Library
24 Aug The Irony of Personal Blog Longevity
26 Jun Social Media Still Calls to Me
3 May Bear Web Beta: Finally, My Notes Anywhere
21 Apr Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy - Or Does It?
19 Apr The Journal Project I Can’t Quit
7 Mar Letting Go of the Fear of Losing Data
6 Mar My App Defaults (Mar 2025 Edition)
3 Mar Take a Walk in Nature, Bring Your Notebook
28 Feb The Eisenhower Matrix I Forgot About (But Still Followed)
26 Feb Write the Book You Want to Read
23 Feb The Art of Organizing (Things That Don’t Need to Be Organized)
16 Feb The Allure of Open Homes: A Window Into Other Lives
1 Feb January 2025: Notes
31 Jan How I Finally Settled on Bear for My Notes
26 Jan Do Fewer Things, Do Them Well
23 Jan Self-Centeredness vs. Selflessness: Keys to Understanding Happiness
16 Jan The Notebook Fallacy: Why Ideas Are Cheap
15 Jan The Cost of Organizing Ideas – But I Keep Doing It Anyway
12 Jan A Journey Through Journaling, Tracking and Memories with Day One
6 Jan Home Is Meant to Serve You: How I Learned to Love My Home
2 Jan If You Want to Capture Ideas, You Are Lost
1 Jan December 2024: Notes
2024
31 Dec Time for Yearly Reflections
30 Dec Homework for Life: Stories of our Lives
27 Dec Life Without Envy
26 Dec My App Defaults (Dec 2024 Edition)
24 Dec Blogging with Purpose as We Approach 2025
1 Dec November 2024: Notes
20 Nov Why Did I Wait So Long to Start Using Day One?
11 Nov Why Does Reading Fiction Feel Productive?
8 Nov Committing to the Thinking Life
5 Nov After Nearly Half a Thousand Self-Help Books, I’m Finally Good Enough (Plus Some Favorites)
1 Nov October 2024: Notes
30 Oct These Precious, Normal Days
28 Oct A Digital Workflow to Run My Life (Mar 2025 Edition)
26 Oct Parenting from a Place of Scarcity and What to Do About It
24 Oct Recognizing the Scarcity Mentality
20 Oct Claiming My Right to Blog - Reflections on My Blogging Journey
18 Apr Midlife Musings: Navigating the Road Ahead
8 Mar Letting Go of Old Journals and Mementos
8 Feb Yesterday Is Gone, Tomorrow Is Not Here (Omar Khayyam)
2023
31 Dec Reflections on Writing in Public
12 Nov Powerful Questions for Better Listening Skills
19 May 10 Reasons to Use Goodreads
2022
13 Nov How to Achieve Self-Awareness Through Reflexivity Practice
11 Jun Happiness Questions to Ask Yourself Every Day
10 Jun The Rise of Digital Gardeners
10 Jun Why You Should (Almost) Always Say Yes To Social Commitments
25 Jan Delete Your To-Dos
2021
20 Oct Capture Highlights From Paper Books With This Awesome App
27 Sep “I Am Sorry That Happened to You” (Sympathy vs. Empathy)
19 Sep Marie Kondo’s Life-Changing Magic Five Years Later
10 Jun There Was a Bronte Brother and Other Amazing Reads (1000 Days of Reading)
30 May You Want a Social Life With Friends and Other Amazing Reads (1000 Days of Reading)
20 May Refuse to Choose: Too Many Interests to Pick Just One?
18 May Are You Really That Busy?
17 May 1000 Days of Reading - An Introduction to the Program
13 Apr Beware of This Online Time Suck (Examine Your Subscriptions)
22 Mar The True Meaning of Success
1 Mar My Life in Trends
18 Feb A Scientific Way to Test and Discover Your Biases
11 Feb My (Justified) Obsession with Joyce Maynard
2020
30 Dec Yearly Reflections: Preparing for the Year Ahead
13 Dec Readwise An Easy Way to Organize Your Kindle Highlights
9 Oct A No-Nonsense View of Managed Isolation in New Zealand
5 Oct Time to Write (How About 14 Guilt-Free Days?)
11 Sep Why I Deleted My Bucket List and Why You Should, Too
25 Aug Living at the Level of F* You
20 Aug Morine Necropolis and the Scenic Route of the Herzegovinian Highlands
20 Jul What I Wish I Knew as a New Mother
2 Jul My Writing Life so Far
22 Jun You Don’t Need a Dedicated Home Office
13 Jun What I Learned from Watching the Nine Seasons of The Walking Dead During the Covid-19 Lockdown
5 Jun My Unforgettable Visit to Arthur C. Clarke’s Home in Colombo, Sri Lanka
3 Jun The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster Predicts Social Media
2 Jun The Particular Sadness of Abandoned National Treasure in Osanjici, Bosnia and Herzegovina
25 May Did Ancient Aliens Energize at Daorson, Bosnia and Herzegovina?
4 Mar What Happens When Your 9–5 Defines You