Handwritten notebook entries, scrapbook pages, running lists in a computer file, hard drives full of pictures-all are ways to record, remember and even tally your experiences. Do you have a system of archiving your life? Why do you think people keep track of things and places, and hold on to objects like ticket stubs to concerts and plays? In the Sunday Book Review essay "My Life With Bob," Pamela Paul describes her habit of writing the title of every book she's read since high school in a journal she calls Bob: ... It's also become an itinerary of where I've been and where I really was while I was there. Students: Tell us what you think about Ms. Paul's reading diary and her decades-long habit of updating it. Do you agree that the list reveals information about who she was-and where she was-at various times in her life? Would you like to have a Bob of your own, for books read or something else (music loved, concerts attended, movies watched, and so on)? Do you currently maintain an archive about your life and times?