If I had to pick one essential item, it would be my journal. I always carry it in my purse. I’m gone for three-week stretches for work. When I’m flying. I don’t have to worry about needing Wi-fi, because I have the journal. It’s like home for me. I don’t think I’ve gone without it in al my 27 years of traveling for work. Every lesson plan’ every workshop, every poem I write is generated from that journal. My journal is that place where I can dream and create space for myself. – Glen Redmond