Author Description

In 2011, Barbara Hay began writing a daily haiku as a fun way to jumpstart her writing each day'and to keep her mind agile. Then one day she flipped open one of her old notebooks of haiku only to find it was like traveling back in time to that year again. Each haiku brought the day it was written into focus. Hay realized she had done something much more than create a new habit: she had created a new way to journal. Even better, her haiku journals were something that someday she could leave to her children, a way to remember who she was through the tiny moments of her life from the consequential to the mundane to the beautiful.