Wayne MacPhail is a journalist living in Hamilton. In 1584, the then-12-year-old English poet John Donne was studying at the University of Oxford along with his younger brother, Henry. This was when ...

If you want to start journaling, a commonplace book is a low-stakes entrypoint. Studies have shown that journaling can boost your mental health and help you process difficult emotions-even if you ...

Over 20 years after being founded, Commonplace Coffee has named its first-ever CEO, Pittsburgh native Alisa Paul. “I am incredibly excited to join the Commonplace Coffee team and help steward the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By J.D. Biersdorfer, c.2021 The New York Times Co. Creating a commonplace book is somewhat like marking your favorite lines in a novel with the Amazon Kindle ...

Kelsey McKinney says writers have been aggregating, storing and sharing information through commonplace books for centuries—it’s only the technology that’s changed. Plus, a trove of beautiful ...

As a Nora Ephron “stan” of a certain age, it’s impossible for me to hear the word “independent bookstore” and not think of ’90s-era Meg Ryan, holding a box of twinkle lights, giving one last wistful ...

If you have a crisp, new notebook you’re dying to write in, but aren’t sure where to start, why not grab a pen and start filling it with random thoughts and ideas? A journal that’s packed with ...