About Me and How the Decade Journal Started: Diamonds and colored gems are beautiful, but I never really desired to own them. In fact, my jewelry has never been much more than the most basic items like a wedding ring, and a few pieces of department store costume jewelry. For me, journals and notebooks, pens and pencils, have always been the “sparkly things” that made me look with longing. The empty notebooks are obviously waiting for their purpose to be unveiled, full of potential. And filled notebooks, whether filled with ideas or data, are ideas captured on paper, no longer floating in a vaporous thought, dissolving into the air like the cloud of steam escaping a boiling tea kettle. I have always been “in search” of the perfect notebook. Like Goldilocks. I wanted one that is not too big, but not too small. It must be “just right.” And with dozens of various sized notebooks and hundreds of pens and pencils, I admit with a chuckle, that I have done some “in-dept...