Dear Journal, Are You a Huge Waste of Time? –
In my memoir class, one of my classmates lamented that she had lived through JFK’s assassination, the Beatles’ Ed Sullivan debut, and other monumental historical events, but when she found her 6th grade diary, she could only find scurrilous details of cute boys and slights from mean girls who didn’t invite her to their sleepovers.
It is fascinating what we think our childhood selves would or should have been writing versus what they actually did.
But this makes sense. As a child (and even for