The Blog   Daniel Warner Headshot  Keep a Diary? Start a Blog?
Or Just Read Someone Else's?  Posted: Updated:  "Keep a diary
and someday it'll keep you."  I have never really understood the
meaning of the quote attributed to Mae West. Did she mean that
if you religiously write down everything that has happened to
you, what you have felt and every dirty little secret that
you've managed to keep 'secret', it will one day fill your
pockets and let you live in relative comfort; or did she mean
that if you keep a record of every resolution and achievement,
failed affair and disappointment, then one day you'll be bound
to it?  If you keep a diary, your life is right there before you
in pen and ink, and there is no running away from it. The mind
can sometimes cloud, paint and blur the edges but if you've got
it all written down in front of you and in your own fair hand,
then the rosiest of rose tinted spectacles are not going to make
anything bad seem better, or anything grand seem grander.  I
have just started to k