Burn After Reading

Confronting Who You Were Last Night and Many Years Ago

In the process of trying to de-clutter my home, I found a Rubbermaid bin full of my childhood and young adult journals. Notebooks full of nightly confessionals, which started when I was ten and continued on fairly regularly until about the age of 23 or so. As a 50th birthday gift to myself, I decided to reread them.

Shortly after that, I decided to bur…