What I Love about You By Me Inside the Creation of the Fill-in-the-Blank Gift Book

Knock Knock What I Love about You Journal
The "What I Love about You Journal" in its final form.

I got the idea for the What I Love about You Fill in the Love™ Journal from a gift I received several years ago. It’s just a tiny spiral Mead notebook, but it instantly became (and remains) my most prized possession. Maybe on some subconscious level I thought, everyone should know how this feels: to be told in concrete terms …

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Valentine’s Day: Realities Don’t Always Rhyme HEAD HONCHO HELLO FOR FEBRUARY 2014

NOSTALGIA 2014: My still-sentimental self thought this 2004 pad could revive a time when every kid in the classroom got valentines. Then again, was that time actually so idyllic? Navigating classroom valentine dynamics was serious and humiliating stuff.

The best Valentine’s Day of my life was in high school, and I can’t say that many since have even come close. Kind of sad that the standout was twenty-five years ago. By contrast, I seem to have a great New Year’s Eve—the other over-promise-and-under-deliver holiday—about every five years, separated by ones that aren’t merely mediocre but instead pretty much …

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What Do You Love About Your Other Half? Great Gift of the Week

Shakespeare may have written the most romantic stanzas to date, but you’re the only person who can pen how much you swoon when your beau remembers to DVR your favorite show twelve minutes before it starts. Now that’s true love. Make Valentine’s Day (and really, any day) extra special by giving your sweetheart the What I Love About You journal. …

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