Tiny Dale Books

A guided reflection journal · 2027 edition

A Year of Better Questions.

Start with one thoughtful question each week. At the end of the year, you’ll have a record of memories and moments that might otherwise have gone unwritten.

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Written by Anne & Christopher Gray

Cover of A Year of Better Questions: 52 Questions Worth Asking Yourself, 2027 Edition

Inside the book

One year. Fifty-two questions worth answering.

The book begins with where you came from. From there, it moves through the people, choices, and turning points that shaped you, the life you have now, and what may come next.

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One question a week

A slower rhythm gives memories time to surface and leaves room for an answer that goes beyond your first thought.

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A nudge, not an answer

A brief note beneath each prompt helps you find a way in without suggesting what your response should be.

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Made to be written in

Two-page entries, black ink on cream paper, and a comfortable 6 × 9-inch paperback make handwriting feel natural.

A question from the book

“What ordinary part of your life today do you suspect you’ll someday wish you could have back?”

Some questions may answer themselves immediately. Others may follow you for days. Both kinds belong here.

Why we started Tiny Dale Books

Important stories shouldn’t have to wait for difficult times.

Anne and Christopher Gray beside a mountain lake
Anne & Christopher Gray, founders of Tiny Dale Books

Anne has spent her career as an oncology nurse, caring for people through some of the hardest days of their lives. Patients have trusted her with the stories they carry: the memories they return to, the dreams they still hold, and the things they wish they had shared sooner.

Those conversations left us with a simple belief: we shouldn’t have to wait for life to become difficult before asking the questions that matter.

We created Tiny Dale Books to help those conversations begin sooner with ourselves, with the people we love, and with the generations whose stories we hope to preserve. Because a life doesn’t have to be extraordinary for its story to be worth keeping.

The private reader community

The book can be private. The conversation is optional.

Every 2027 copy includes access to 52 reader rooms, one for each question in the journal. You can share a memory, leave a thoughtful reply, or visit without posting.

Enter the communityFor 2027 edition readers
  1. 1
    Enter your email

    Use your email address. It stays private.

  2. 2
    Add the book’s code word

    Find the code word near the back of your 2027 book.

  3. 3
    Choose any room

    Move at your own pace. Post when you want to, or simply read.

A different kind of online space

Made for reflection, not reaction.

There is no public profile to build and no streak to protect. It is simply a place to spend time with a question and hear how other readers answered it.

A room inside the 2027 edition
“Who changed the direction of your life without realizing it?”
Share a memoryReply with curiosity
Organized by the book

Find the prompt that stayed with you

Open any week you want. Each room keeps the conversation connected to the question that started it.

Reader to reader

Respond with curiosity

Replies are a place for recognition, perspective, and thoughtful follow-up. They are not for fixing someone else’s life.

Future editions

Help decide what we ask next

Tell us what you would like future journals to explore, from family stories and relationships to the work that defines us.

How we look after the space

Thoughtful, personal, and respectful.

  • Share only what feels right.
  • Be curious before offering advice.
  • Protect other people’s privacy as carefully as your own.
Have a community question? Write to us.

Where Tiny Dale Books goes next

Some stories need their own set of questions.

Parents, grandparents & family stories
Couples, then and now
The work that defines us

Future books will keep the same unhurried approach, with each edition written for a particular relationship, season of life, or kind of work.

The first edition

A Year of Better Questions

52 Questions Worth Asking Yourself · 2027 Edition

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