Journal or Blog?

Sunday, February 15, 2015

One of my goals in retirement is to write more regularly. It has always been therapeutic for me. However, since technology, I have battled whether a journal is really a journal if written digitally. Then, of course, there is my struggle with having the worst handwriting ever . Oh sure, I can force myself to write slowly, deliberately, but then it takes so very, very long that I lose interest--well, that would have to do with my other issue of ADHD, but that is for another entry. So as I battled this in my very busy mind and years passed with very little writing having been accomplished, I decided to try this online option. Is it a journal or a blog?

A journal is "a daily record of news and events of a personal nature; a diary." A blog is "a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal conversational style."  Hmmm....well, I guess it is whatever I want it to be, so this is a blogging journal!  The entries may or may not interest you, so you may chose to follow it or not. Mostly, these are my thoughts wanting to be written down, but if some of these thoughts make anyone think, laugh, cry, then by all means, enjoy.


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