Archive - handwritten notes

July 2025

the creative notebook: 100 journals

Filling creative journals has become, well, my thing. Here I talk about why I've stayed with them for my entire adult life so consistently, and give you…

Jul 25 •

the creative notebook: week 3

what i need you to remember about creative journaling, and some ideas to keep you filling pages this week.

Jul 18 •

a little background about where i began... and where you can begin, too, to keep a creative notebook.

Jul 11 •

welcome back to the creative notebook

reviving a little something i used to do 12 years ago, but really never stopped doing at all... filling creative journals.

Published on handwritten notes • Jul 8

welcome back to the creative notebook

reviving a little something i used to do 12 years ago, but really never stopped doing at all... filling creative journals.

Jul 8 •

June 2025

Spanish and Catalan names make my heart all a-flutter

The naming of people is colored with the culture of a place, and the culture of this place is beautiful.

Jun 4 •

March 2025

confessional joys and secret resistance

making lists of the little things, that together with all of us, get us not only to survival but to real change.

Mar 24 •

are you sure it's free?

what happens when your child needs to stay in the hospital in spain?

Mar 6 •

February 2025

our little plaça, right in the center of town, has quite a history. just ask our neighbor josep, who ran a bank and a bar here years ago. so many years…

Feb 27 •

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