Journals through Generations

Soon To Be Released

Diary entry, January 1, 1886 

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If you have been reading our family journals, by now you know the Clark family has a big secret. We have found a hidden portal to the future at the Bird Cage Theater in Tombstone, Arizona. 

 

My brothers, Jesse and Tucker, both have wives from the 21st century. Jesse is married to Skylar and Tucker's wife's name is Lucy. I love them both dearly. 

 

It was I who discovered the portal opens once a year on December 28th and stays open for 24 hours. I learned the hard way when I got distracted and didn't make it back to the portal in time to return to the Arizona territory of 1884. I was stuck in the future for an entire year.

 

Despite the modern Conveniences of the future, I much prefer the simplicity of life in the 19th century. Boy is it good to be home.

 

I've always been an independent sort, but I discovered in my Journey to the future how wonderful life is for the liberated Women of the future.

 

It's New Year's Day, and I've resolved to join the women's suffrage movement. I plan to gather signatures to hasten the passage of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will give women the right to vote it's a worthy cause and promises to be a perilous but exciting journey.

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Did you have a journal or a diary as a kid? Do you have one now? I do. My parents bought me my first one when I was around nine or ten. Sometimes, it's fun to read them and drift back in time. Things that seemed so important then especially while raising my children don't seem so important now. There were times of celebrations and grief. I loved writing in mine and the favorite part was they had a key so I could lock my thoughts away from prying eyes. A little privacy was exciting, especially in my teens. 

I can't help but wonder if writing in my journals is what started me on my path to become a writer. I'm pretty sure it was. I was the little News Paper lady in our family. I wrote about everything that happened in my small world and sometimes, I wrote about events that I seen on TV or heard on the radio. My first understanding of death came early when my three year old little sister Tina Maria was ran over by a logging truck, and then my baby brother Travis lost his young life at one month old to pneumonia. Life was hard and tears were shed, but journals help us remember the good times and the bad. 

I wonder if my children will keep my journal's when I'm gone or if they will throw them in the trash? Hard to say. In my Chasing Time saga book two 'TUCKER' Tucker travels to the future he finds out that they're many Clark descendant's still living in or around Heaven's Cove and prospering. He also discovers his great great great grandson Cole Clark lives at the Bar C, his family home, and has his Ma's bible, and his families journals. What a shock! Did they read them? Yep, and they've used them through the generations as a guiding line for their family values.

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 I sure appreciate you joining me here on Cowboy Kisses! I'll be here again next month on the last Monday of September. Until then keep safe. Be kind. Write in your journal:O)

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