When it comes to written work, nothing can equal the attention I have paid to writing a daily journal. Though many of the volumes have been lost or stolen, the topics and details of the years of my life beginning in 1970 when I was 16 years old are amazing in their depth. I am not Anais Nin mind you, and there is little intrigue or pornography in the pages, but there is much evidence of predilection to creative writing and my career as a teacher.
In the entry from March 6, 1987, there is a notation: "This 26th page of 1987 journal equals my total entries of 1986!" I should say that with an average of 40 lines per page, 11 words per line, in an 8"by 6" unlined bound book, the content more or less equals that of a standard 7" by 5" paperback. The entry from this date details my page output from previous years' journal writing:
1980 - 128
1981 - 72
1982 - 42
1983 - 21
1984 - 58
1985 - 42
1986 - 26
1987 - 116
With this introduction, I begin to transcribe key pages of my journals, the journals that still exist.
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