You are a writer. Don’t tell your parents that.” My English advisor, Professor Robert Cohen, told me these words as I sat in ...

In the writing workshops I teach, I advocate that writing can save your life. Using my own life as a compass, I suggest that when navigating difficult waters, we all need something to turn to—whatever ...

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 ...

During my first year in business, I kept a weekly diary. It helped me to reflect on the week that just passed, take a look back at prior weeks to look for trends and learning, and just give me some ...

Like many English majors before me, I found myself walking across the graduation stage in 2019 knowing my college days were behind me—and that I’d soon be unemployed. Despite giving it my all and ...

Even as I’ve grown further from the target reader’s age and my peers have picked up books that aren’t written in Comic Sans, ...

Though YA slice-of-life novel Diary of a Confused Feminist was former stand-up comedian and U.K. author Kate Weston’s U.K. debut, it’s her second book to appear in the U.S. following the YA murder ...

To mark the Federal Diary’s 80th birthday last month, we’ve been running a column from each decade since the Diary began. We asked for reader comment, and here are some of the responses. Glad I saw ...