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“Hello, my name is Gary, and I am a journal addict.” Or so I might introduce myself at the local chapter meeting of MA (Moleskine Anonymous)…if there were such a group.

Packing my briefcase on Monday for yet-another-office-trudge, I noticed the pile of Moleskines on the coffee table next to my shoulder bag I use on weekends for carrying all my crap from café to café. (The life of a nomadic writer is all about creative pack-n-tote.) So there I was, doing the usual Monday-morning chore of gathering up the appropriate office-necessary Moleskines, when I realized (admittedly for the first time) that I am rather dependent on Modo e Modo’s famous product line.

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By definition, most of us see our journals or diaries as private realms. I suspect few of us feel safe enough to write freely in our Moleskines or journals, always slightly suspecting someone might read them when we’re not around. In a former relationship of mine where we were both journalers, there was an unwritten rule of journal privacy, but how absolute was that? The pull to read another’s inner thoughts can sometimes be too great even for the most honest among us.

Consider the current plight of Prince Charles:  a former, ostensibly trusted, staff member copied pages from his private diaries and sold them to the British press, and not just from one journal but a total of eight of the Prince’s collections of personal views and diatribes. To date, the only exposure has been some rather unflattering remarks aimed at the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong (The Mail has published only one excerpt so far). Embarrassing, but likely not as much as that yet to be revealed…assuming the current lawsuit doesn’t reverse the malicious intent of his former staffer.

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