Marci Rae Johnson

I'll be spinning this a lot in the coming months. Join in! Marchxness is so much fun, and interactive.

A Brief Moment of Bad Poetry Here’s an embarrassingly bad poem—but we all have to start somewhere, right?

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Wanna Be a Disciple? It's a Piece of Cake! More Christian camp memorabilia from 1988: The full schedule for “Snowfest” and Skylodge Christian Camp in Montello, WI.

"Wanna Be a Disciple?" More Christian camp memorabilia. #journals #journalentry open.substack.com/pub/marcijou...

List of Words to Use Undated, sometime in Feb.

This post from my unedited journals has a poetry prompt in it. Try it out! #journals #poetryprompt #writing #uneditedjournals open.substack.com/pub/marcijou...

What to Bring (and Not to Bring) to Christian Camp A bible and modest swimwear are necessary of course.

In my unedited journals today, what to bring and not to bring to Christian camp in 1988. marcijournals.substack.com/p/what-to-br...

Choose 200 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 200 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

Shopping List: Horrifying 80s Clothes Undated, sometime in Feb.

A horrifying 80s clothing shopping list is now up on my unedited journals on Substack. Here I am in creative writing class, wearing the white shorts from the list. open.substack.com/pub/marcijou...

You can listen to me talk about my poem that's out with Reformed Journal on their podcast here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Have a poem up at Reformed Journal today: reformedjournal.com/2025/07/08/w...

New poem out in Lily Poetry Review. This is one of two poems I’ve written that was inspired by My Little Pony 🙂 #poetry #poems #poem

Choose 200 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 200 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

Slow down and enjoy the simple pleasures in life.

Reading fiction fights loneliness and builds a healthier brain Loneliness is a growing crisis, and while Silicon Valley promotes AI companions, research suggests an older, simpler solution may be more effective. Studies show that reading improves social connectio...

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Planning My Own Church Retreat 2-1-88 In this entry I appear to be writing notes to someone else (I’m guessing probably to my BFF, during a class).

It appears that while still on my high from a church camp retreat, I wanted to create my own retreat. From my unedited journals, 1988. marcijournals.substack.com/p/planning-m... #journal #uneditedjournal #diary #journalentry

Evangelical Church Camp 1-31-88

Some impressions from evangelical church camp, now up on my unedited journals page on Substack: marcijournals.substack.com/p/evangelica...

I do listen to music while writing, but only certain types. I have a writing playlist on Spotify.

Choose 200 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 200 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

Choose 200 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 200 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

Choose 200 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 200 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

I love this quote from Matt Haig: "The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy. If were were happy with what we had, why would we need more? . . . To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act." #booksky #books #reading

Choose 200 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 200 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge

Here's a poem that appeared in a journal called The Mockingbird a couple years back.

A small piece of nonexistence without which existence would not be 1-28-88

New post up from my unedited journals: A description of air in which I use, as usual, very flowery language. 😂 #journals #uneditedjournals #journalentry #writing

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Basic Disaster Supplies Kit Check out Basic Disaster Supplies Kit - "Hovering over and shooting through this collection is the spirit and symbolic heft of an ancient faith under contemporary pressures, to mean at all much less b...

Here's an older poem that appeared in my second collection, Basic Disaster Supplies Kit. www.versedaily.org/2016/mrroger...

You can buy my book here, if you'd like to read more! bookshop.org/p/books/basi...

The weary woman, part two 1-28-88

Part 2 of the melodramatic short story from my unedited journals is now up on Substack! marcijournals.substack.com/p/the-weary-...

The weary woman dried her gnarled hands on a rough blue towel 1-27-88

New post up from my unedited journals! marcijournals.substack.com/p/the-weary-...

Who is on Substack? I am @marciraejohnson and I've got two publications I've started. Please follow me and I'll follow you back!

Yeet Me to the Moonmoon Why would a moon need a moon,

New poem up on my Substack here: marciraepoetry.substack.com/p/yeet-me-to.... Thanks for reading!

Two Very Bad Poems 1-26-88

Need a break from the news cycle? Read two of my badly written poems from 1988 in From The Unedited Journals of Marci Rae Johnson. marcijournals.substack.com/p/two-very-b...

Supplementary Material List Book—First Entry

A new entry from my Unedited Journals: This one about the start of my habit of keeping a list of every book I have read. marcijournals.substack.com/p/supplement...