circle journals rock!

I have wanted to do a circle journal for years now, but I never had the perfect reason to do it until Jessie moved away. She suggested that we try it, and I was thrilled. She made one, and then I made one, and now we send them back and forth to each other. Talking on the phone, blogging, and doing the circle journal -- it's the perfect trifecta that keeps me from missing Jessie so much it hurts.


There was a slight learning curve -- for example, I learned that I absolutely cannot send a circle journal media mail to North Carolina (it took two weeks to arrive!). But I could not ask for a more enthusiastic correspondent. I was talking to Jessie on the phone this morning and she said, "we need to establish a good routine for sending these!", meaning that you can't receive one of the journals and just hold onto it; you've got to write in it and get it back into circulation quickly.

It's so fun to write to Jessie, and to be able to say anything I want -- it's uncensored. I fear Jessie is getting the short end of the stick on this deal, though: she is hilarious, while it's been well established that I'm rather, well, boring. So while my entries are probably pretty pedantic, her last one included classifieds for voodoo doctors! How can I compete with that? I can't, and I guess that's the best thing about doing this with Jessie: she loves me anyway!


{p.s. another bonus to the circle journal: there is often additional good mail included in the package!}