I must admit that I still prefer to keep track of my appointments, things to do, places to be and friends’ birthdates in a datebook that serves as my lifeline in a given year before it is retired to a shelf at the end of December.  I happen to like the month-at-a-glance approach to planning….to be able to doodle in the margins and use colored markers to denote categories of entries. In looking back through old datebooks,  I have found that they serve as diaries or journals –  touchstones to remind me where I have been – or in some cases, how far I have come.   I was delighted upon discovering McIntyre’s new shipment of 2009 calendars and datebooks this week!  Jamie orders from an art publisher so they are especially beautiful and everything but ordinary.  There are even gorgeous calendar bookmarks which she tells me never last for long.  I’m already feeling  inspired by the crisp new pages of 2009!   

Daneen