One more personal milestone...

I usually think of February 23 as the anniversary of the date I started keeping a notebook (or diary or journal). I don't think I wrote the date down at the time, but it was certainly around that part of my fifth-grade year.

Well, fifth grade for me was the 1969-1970 school year … so that means that I have been chronicling my life for 50 years. A full half century.

Granted, I didn't do too much journaling from about my mid-20s into my early 30s. Too much chaos in my life. But hey, here I am, still writing, 50 years later.