I don’t know how it is where you are, but around here it’s COLD!  Thermometer was reading zero degrees this morning and is struggling to climb into the single digit range.  It’s a good morning to snuggle up under a warm blanket or afghan and write in your journal!

Starting a new journal this week?  Here are some theme ideas:

• A weather extremes journal.  Reminisce or give live updates when the weather is doing unusual things.  These can be your own stories or your thoughts on unusual weather from other times and places.
• A poetry journal.  Find and read a poem and then respond to it for your entry.
• A descriptive writing journal.  Write down your best descriptions of everyday items that engage all five senses.  How vivid can you make your writing?

And if your creativity is frozen to the floor, here are some prompts that you can write about this week:

• When was the last time you saw a face in some inanimate object?  Does that happen to you a lot?  Does it have any special meaning for you?
• Choose a knickknack that you have in your home, and write the story of how you came into possession of it and why it’s special enough that you keep it around.
• What type of weather do you find most soothing?  Most exciting? Most interesting? Most frightening?  How often do you experience it where you live now?
• What was the last television show that you watched all the way through?  Why did it keep your interest? Will you watch the next in the series?
• Look around your home and find a pile of clutter (c’mon, we all have them somewhere even if they are hidden in a little-used drawer).  What’s in the pile?  Why is it there?
• Choose a memory from your school days and write it down.  Did this experience impact your life or was it a mundane sort of an event?  Why did the memory stick with you?
• Describe your favorite physical sensation in the whole wide world.  How often do you get to experience it?

Enjoy!