![]() I did value my notebook as an outlet, a confidante, a place to work through stress and sorrows, and I couldn’t understand why other kids didn’t write in journals too. ![]() I can see that I was a historian at a very young age. I took the obligation to describe my own era pretty seriously, but it’s also fun to look back through those earnest eighth-grade notebooks where I recorded the price of an “album” along with notes on the Watergate hearings. Why is writing important to you and why do you think it’s an important medium for the world? I’ve been writing since I was five, producing a portfolio of stories through elementary school at age twelve I began keeping a journal (I’m now on volume number 200.) Born in 1961, growing up through the 1960s peace movement, the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, the lesbian and gay rights movement, it mattered to me to keep a record of what I saw and experienced. ![]()
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