Journal 2024: Donald Trump and My Upcoming Heart Surgery is the 21st yearly journal published by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. Among the subjects Sutton covers in this 9,000-word journal are Trump, Biden, sports, racism, family, exercise, writing, his past, his regrets, and climate change.

Journal 2023: Trump, COVID, Sports, and Aging is the 20th yearly journal published by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton (12,00 words). Donald Trump, as he has since he came down the golden escalator in 2015, takes up a large chunk of Sutton's thoughts. Sutton shows how the COVID pandemic changed his and his wife's lives. An avid sports fan, Sutton follows San Francisco's professional sports teams through their highs and lows. At the age of 83, with time running o...

San Francisco author Joseph Sutton tells the reader what was going on in the country and in his own life in Journal 2022: One Year in a Writer's Life (17,000 words). In 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there were mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, and the January 6th Committee Hearings took place. Sutton airs his thoughts on those events and writes about coming down with COVID-19, having temporary he...

In this 7000-word yearly journal, Joseph Sutton writes about the highs and lows of being a wholesale salesman of costume jewelry. He writes about his wife, their four-year-old son, and the constant battles he has with his teenage stepson. Sutton dreams of getting back to being the writer of fiction that was far from lucrative for him but supporting his family as a salesman takes precedence over everything else.

Journal 2016 (15,000 words) is the 17th yearly journal by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. At the age of 76 in 2016, Sutton wrote down his thoughts about writing, his memories of growing up in 1940s and '50s Hollywood, his love of sports, his terminating two longtime friendships, his recovery from hip surgery, and his opinion of Donald Trump.

***Journal 2012: The Rationals vs. the Irrationals***is the 16th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. In this one year journal of 9000 words, Sutton writes about weight loss, self-publishing, politics, global warming, visiting Manhattan, and the differences between rational thinkers and irrational thinkers.

JOURNAL 1980 is the 14th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. This 10,000-word journal shows Sutton on the cusp of fatherhood as he battles with himself to either stick to a unprofitable writing career or to choose another profession that brings security to his family.

***Journal 2005: Hip Surgery and the Bush2 Administration***is the 17th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton (5,500 words). In this one year journal, Sutton writes about his recovery from a second hip replacement operation. He also shows his contempt for the George W. Bush administration for deceiving the American people about starting a war with Iraq without any proven justification.

Journal 1984: Overcoming Asthma and Changing Careers is the 13th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. While teaching high school English in 1984, Sutton contracted asthma. This yearly journal of 6300 words shows how he overcame that dreaded disease and why he had to quit teaching. To keep supporting his family, he became a salesman. But he never forgot his true calling of returning to writing again.

"Journal 2014: The Life of an Unknown Writer" is the 12th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. The main topics Sutton covered in 2014 were: Writing, Self-Publishing, the San Francisco Giants' World Series Run, the Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album, Exercise, Weight Loss/Gain, Climate Change, and much, much more.

"Journal 2015: History of One Man" is a history of one year in San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton's life. Religion, Sports, the Universe, the Environment, Philosophy, American History, Politics, Self-Publishing—all these topics and more are included in Sutton's one-year journal.

"Journal 2001: The 9/11 Attacks" is the tenth in a series of yearly journals by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. Sutton writes of that fatal day in 2001 and asks himself why terrorists are willing to sacrifice their lives for "the cause." He writes about his past and present life, his family, the environment, baseball, and, of course, the writing life.