You Can't Write Your Way Out of Yourself

But you might learn how to live there a little better

No Exit, Only Arrival — Rendered by the author in DALL-E

As some of you may already know, I first discovered my love of writing as a child through journaling. My parents gave me this little pink and blue diary with a cat on it, and I still remember the way the sight of all the blank pages inside — pages waiting to be filled with words of my own — filled …