Petunia & Dre by Allison Garwood for September 15, 2022

Miraculously surviving an extra gruesome abducted hiker/wildfire/shark attack sounds pretty newsworthy, wouldn’t you say?

Petunia, do it for yourself and no other.

Is this “bullet journaling?”

One of my therapists once suggested gluing the pages of my journal together after writing on them. That way, she reasoned, I could get the feelings out and contain them safely. I never actually did it. As unmotivated as I was to write down things that would make me cringe upon rereading, the perception of wasting paper was just as hard to overcome.

I hope someone reads my journals when I die. I have nothing to hide.

My therapist advised me to write letters to the people whom I despise and burn them. I did, but I don’t know what to do about the letters.