Ev Ellsworth, who has kept journals for 50 years. Retired as an English teacher of grades seven through 12, she has lived in New York’s Catskill region for over a decade. She has taught introductory journal writing through Writers in the Mountains, a Delaware County, New York, writing group that offers classes for new and experienced writers. http://www.writersinthemountains.org. Her work has been published in In Our Own Words and Out of Our Minds (both are collections of stories written and published by Writers in the Mountains).
Best Part -- It's Easy I started keeping a journal in 1953, not long after my mother, then 70 --…
