#support

Feelin super down... Lookin for an objective viewpoint to confirm or disprove my subjective feelz....   My mom died in February. Last few times I spoke on the phone to one (of FOUR) of my aunts (mom's sisters), I expressed how much it stresses me out to use the phone, especially to call out....

Hi, I do own a private journal that I write in but having the ability to publicly and anonymously release my thoughts helps when I feel I have no one to speak to or do not want to bother people with my issues. Everyone is dealing with something and I want to be a bright…

I'm going to skip family because I can't always count on my mother and my father which is sad but I think it is also quite common because we live for a very long time with our family and we rely much more on them than on our friends, so if we had relied 1/10…

I am excited to be writing here on OpenDiary again, though the impetus is somewhat unfocused. I do miss the solidarity of the OD community (circa the early 2000s), but the writing and the reflection that journaling requires is sometimes an emotional terrain that is hard to wade through. I have be...

I don't know why I hit the Open Diary cancel membership button without thinking. Perhaps, I software test as part of my job. I have to find ways to break things in order to build a better program so other end users don't break it first. Well, I think I broke something.  Heads up, if you…