Ellie's Teen Diary: 'I Seriously Danced My Ass Off'
You really would not have been able to tell, from my barely touched and poorly-written teen diaries, that writing was…
Kelly's Teen Diary: 'I Feel Like Bridget Jones, Except Without the Alcoholism'
I spent a huge amount of high school wishing I had a boyfriend and self-consciously pretending I didn’t care about boys…
Kate's Teen Diary: 'Do You Think It's Possible to Fall in Love at Age 12?'
My year as an 8th grader in New York City was quite fraught; September 11th occurred just days into the school year,…
Clover's Teen Diary: 'Drowning in a Sea of Hopeless Emotions'
All throughout high school, I spent an inordinate amount of downtime writing poems about love and loneliness. That era…
I Started My High School Diary the Week Katrina Hit New Orleans
I was 16 years old, a senior in high school, when Katrina devastated New Orleans. Like most teens my age, my biggest…
More Princess Diaries Books Are Coming
Fans of Meg Cabot will rejoice at the news that the franchise that catapulted Anne Hathaway into the hearts and minds…
This Cat Diary Is the Best (Only?) Cat Diary
Like Sisyphus, this cat is bound to hell.
Super Brave Woman Tumbls Diary From Her Slut-Shamed Adolescence
Once you get some chronological and emotional distance from the arbitrary cruelty of middle school, it's easy to write…
More Teenage Girls Are Keeping Diaries Because Diaries Are the Best
I've kept diaries countless times in my life, I'm sort-of a professional diary-starter. My very first diary was started…
The Ever-Evolving Boyfriend Checklist
I stumbled upon an old blog of mine the other day, and, needless to say, like most things that happened more than 10…
Assange's OKCupid Profile Sounds Like Assange Sex Musings (Updated)
It's not clear if the florid, self-aggrandizing OKCupid profile with Julian Assange's photo is legit. But it does sound…
Amanda Knox Wins Lawsuit Over Book • Two-Year-Old Girl Joins MENSA
• The writer and publisher of a book about Amanda Knox have been ordered to pay the incarcerated American 40,000 Euros…
Teenage Wasteland: Your Old Diaries Are Awkward, Awe-Inspiring
A month ago, we asked you to send us a page from your old journals. Today, we reveal our submissions, and you get a…
To Do: Send Us A Page From Your Old Diary
Reminder: Email us a page from your old diary! We've gotten some amazing submissions so far, but you guys have until…
Reminder: Send Us A Page From Your Old Diary
Don't forget to send us a page from your old diary! You can send a scan or a photograph, but it should be no smaller…
To Do: Send Us A Page From Your Old Diaries
Last month, Shameless linked to a blog project called The Amy Diary: A Vancouver woman posts her junior high diaries.…
Beloved English Children's Book Author Was "Controlling, Difficult, Despised Many People."
Apparently an icon of coziness, Alison Uttley's diaries introduce us to a fabulously nasty character. Or, as we call…
The Perks And Perils Of Keeping A Diary
Do you have a diary, a place you write things you don't or can't tell other people? And after you die, would you want…
Bad Girls Club: The Roomates Don't Know What Blogs Are
On last night's episode of Bad Girls Club, Cordelia — most likely still pissed about that unrequited crush — decided to…