About Me — Arielle Hawney

Writing for Good & Humanity

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what does this one say? — That I’m a person you’d like to have a visit with, I hope.

My Meandering Writing Path — Passion, Connection and Self-Expression

I’ve had a passion for observing the world around me and writing about it since I was a young child. Postcards were my first love — sent and received, usually from my Grandma Lala or my traveling Aunt Patty. After that came journaling, starting in grade school — I can still picture the cover of my first journal, given me by the same Grandma Lala, purple and gold with a dusky bouquet in a vase, my large elementary scrawl with abundant misspellings in thick-lined pencil in its pages. I was an enthusiastic story writer and embraced practicing my cursive — a skill they regrettably don’t teach anymore.

From there my writing evolved. In letters. Academics. Poetry. Newsletters and articles, some published. But primarily it has continued to be for myself. Journaling has remained a consistent means to note my observations and make better sense of my experiences and the world around me.

Over the years my favorite writing has come from travel logs — a road trip to Alaska when I was 14; a month-long bike ride from Seattle to San Francisco when I graduated college; and newsletters from the year-and-a-half I spent living in the Middle East. Writing as a means to inspire…