For a long time, I’ve had a hang-up with sketchbooks, notebooks & journals. Don’t misunderstand me.  I love them.  I walk through the notebook/journal section almost every time I’m at a store that carries them.  I look for ones with beautiful bindings, filled with inviting papers.  And I’ve certainly bought enough of them. But, what I’ve accumulated is a collection of journals and sketchbooks that have two or three pages filled, a few pages torn out, and then the balance of the pages are blank.  So I’ll stroll through the notebook section, get wooed into buying another one, and do the very same thing to that one. I finally had to draw a line.  Stop buying notebooks until you fill the ones you have.  Don’t fill them in a spirit of angst and criticism, but with joy and passion. Why does that seem so hard? It’s hard because I approach