Author Archives: Art for Housewives
Interrogation
A diary provides a means for learning more about yourself because it gives you a place to articulate your feelings. Anchoring these feelings with words facilitates their examination. A self-awareness diary needs intention and method. One method is that of … Continue reading
Social Engineering and Emoticons
It won’t be long before a handful of billionaires will control the Western world. And Facebook is helping them out by collecting data on all of its users. This data is subsequently sold, for example, to Cambridge Analytica. The data … Continue reading
Diary Writing and other Spiritual Practices
The other morning, as I was going down the porch stairs loaded with plates, my neighbor called out: προσοχή! (attention). To make sure I didn’t fall and break something, I needed to pay attention. So I concentrated and carefully climbed … Continue reading
Carolina’s Diary
Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), born in a poor Brazilian agricultural area, at the age of seven was given the opportunity by a wealthy woman to go to school. Carolina quickly learned to read and write and dropped out of … Continue reading
Dawn Powell (1896-1965)
Her mother died when she was a little girl. To fill in the void, Dawn kept diaries. Then her father remarried an unpleasant woman who vented her frustrations by destroying everything Dawn had written. A diary is a confident, a … Continue reading



