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 ...

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 ...

The first time I taught a college course called “The London Diary” for young Americans studying abroad back in 2002, each student ended up with a tangible book of memories, a handwritten record of ...

I have been using a 10-year diary. As the name suggests, it is a diary designed to be used over a decade. When unfolded, the ...