Writing your own stories
How do you record your stories, ideas, thoughts, and experiences for future generations? If you are famous (or infamous) enough, somebody does it for you. A book, a Wikipedia entry, or a magazine article or two might survive you. Plenty of people write in journals, but my guess is that these journals soon are relegated to the trash heap after you pass. I mean, who wants your daily whining, wishing, and wondering? There are some exceptions. One of my favorite little books was finalized right before Ed Abbey's death, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal . This slim book contains snippets taken from his books as well as his many journals. • "From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm." • "The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space." In our current digital world, we might feel we have...