Asked by Dear Abby 9/5/2025 114 Votes Have you ever kept a journal? 62% Yes WINNER 5 38% No 3 Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Copy Link 62% Yes Add Comment Comment Share with friends 5 Comments 0 Desiree Williams Journaling helps mine remember overtime Reply 0 Kimberly Jarvis I did when I was a teenager. Then my mother found it, read it, and yelled at me about what I wrote. So I stopped keeping a journal after that. Reply 0 Roberta Mckay Help me remember thing from the past as well as the present. Reply 0 Terri Compton I started journaling when my son was killed on a motorcycle. I have 9 steno books of those horrible early days of grief. Almost 20 years later, I have never opened them to read my thoughts. Reply 0 rover6rover Particularly travel journals of family trips. Reply 38% No Add Comment Comment Share with friends 3 Comments 0 Tina Bouthillier Last time was at 16 (decades ago), fell into wrong hands, never again! Reply 0 Lisa Dammarell Always getting into the wrong hands Reply 0 Lisa Gray I kept a diary when I was a child, is all. Was embarrassed when I read it years later, so would never keep a journal as an adult. Reply
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Journaling helps mine remember overtime
ReplyI did when I was a teenager. Then my mother found it, read it, and yelled at me about what I wrote. So I stopped keeping a journal after that.
ReplyHelp me remember thing from the past as well as the present.
ReplyI started journaling when my son was killed on a motorcycle. I have 9 steno books of those horrible early days of grief. Almost 20 years later, I have never opened them to read my thoughts.
ReplyParticularly travel journals of family trips.
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