Longer than I intended... writing and reading

[maeve66]

I keep a regular journal besides LJ/DW.  I have since I was 9 years old -- it's a well-worn story I tell kids when we start weekly journaling at the beginning of each school year.  I was nine years old, in the winter of 1975/76, and my mom told me I had to go clean up the trash cans that had been knocked over in our alley.  In the slush and the

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Hello again :)

[publius_ovidius]

I'm toying with returning to LJ and it's entries like this which keep me coming back. LiveJournal was a thing when the world seemed less toxic and it was easier to share without people attacking you left and right. I miss that. So thanks for sharing :)

As for "The Guardian," I still read it, but the blatantly left slant of so many things gets tiring after a while. It tells me that if there's an important topic, I can't read them and feel confident I'm getting the entire picture. On the other hand, wanting to run away and hide on top of a mountain to get away from it all means that, perhaps, I don't want to read anything political any more. Sadly, I think that's not an option.

Anyways, enough rambling. I just want to say your description of how you started keeping a journal was lovely and even if your initial entries seem boring to you, they're a little slice of life and a great way to see how you've grown over the years. I wish I had my first journal (though, now that I think about what I was writing, perhaps it's good that I don't

Re: Hello again :)

[maeve66]

It's nice to see someone else on LJ. It is BIZARRE to me that next year will mark my twentieth year on Livejournal. This entry is copied from my Dreamwidth blog, to which I decamped, prophylactically, when LJ was bought by some Russian company.

My critique of The Guardian as a liberal rag is a critique from the Left! It's not Left ENOUGH! For me. It absolutely witch-hunted Jeremy Corbyn, for example. But we can no doubt agree to disagree.