Do you keep a journal? Sometimes its called a diary, I think that's the old fashioned term. What you write in your journal is up to you. Be creative, rant about your family, chronicle your life, or just spin your thoughts on the web.

Keep your journal in a secret place if you don't want anyone to read it. Or, if you feel like sharing you can read what you write to friends or even keep your journal online with sites like Blogger. Of course, you can do both. Have an online journal and another secret journal for just yourself.

Journals can be kept in plain notebooks or fancy lined paper books you buy in stationery stores like Hallmark. I like to write with a fine tip black pen but you can experiment with all kinds of pens and colours. Add stickers or stick in clippings from newspapers and magazines. If you really want to put in a lot of clippings have a look at scrapbooking. That's another form of journaling but there tends to be less writing and more drawings.

There are lots of websites about journaling and scrapbooking. Have a look around and see which appeals to you.

Today is Remembrance Day in Canada and Veteran's Day in the US. Most people were very young or not even born when the old World Wars happened. To us, it can't have the same meaning as it would for our grandparents. So, we wear a little red plastic poppy and spare a couple of minutes of silence to those young men who fought a war and never came home again.

If you've read my columns or backtracked and looked at the archives, you may have noticed the Kids Can Do It! links. I know kids can do a lot of great things. There is a tendency to mother kids, not let them really try at something. Is it mothering or smothering? Sure it may be dangerous for a kid to operate machines/ equipment, travel by themselves or try new stuff. But that doesn't mean kids shouldn't be trying new stuff. How can you grow if you stay in the same place?

So, I want to hear about what you are doing. What can kids do?

Send in a short essay about what you are doing and I will post them here with a link to your website if you have one. Maybe I won't hear from anyone. That would be kind of sad, I hope kids are doing something. Kind of boring if all they are doing is just reading this and going straight to bed afterwards.

Happy writing.