• The Diary of Samuel Pepys
  The diarist -- Sam Pepys -- This site began with his first entry for January 1, 1659/60 on January 1, 2003 and has been posting a daily entry -- the side has annotation discussions of each days' entry plus lots of good background information.
• Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor
  The noted science fiction writer, Byte columnist, etc. -- this is an offshoot of his Byte column, literally is a "journal" -- a daybook -- a collection of commentaries on computers and technology and politics and education, etc.... plus mail
• Juggler Jelly Bean
  A young mother (of toddler daughter The Little Clown, the star of the circus), office worker, wife, part-time web design student and keeper of this circus-motif web journal. (And a new performer is expected to join her circus later this year)
• Bonnie's journal "The Chattering"
  Bonnie probably thinks of herself as retired, but she designs and maintains a number of webpages, puts in many volunteer hours at church, has been involved in victim's rights causes, lives with husband and a number of pets in Texas.
• Bev Sykes' journal
  Bev must type about a thousand words a minute -- she runs a doctor's office, is a medical transcriptionist by night, has raised a grown family, is a theatre critic for her local paper, puts in many hours a week in voluteer activties, has multiple webpages, does publicity for performer Steve Shakalin, is a weight-watcher and bike-rider -- and posts to her journal almost daily.
• Bastion
  Denver Doug is the eldest journalist on this list -- he even has me by two decades -- but his journal is evergreen -- I really enjoy his memories of growing up in the 1920's and 1930's. The link should take you to a list of all of his entries.
• Stephanie DoubleU Mother of two teen-aged girls, school librarian (cyber-friend of Paulinee) also has a book review site
• The Dragon's Lair Wendy takes care of her dogs (including a stray she and her husband took in last year), maintains her journal website and somehow finds time to run a law office.
• StefaniTadio Stefani is a voice from upstate New York, stamping is among her hobbies (no, not collecting postage stamps, creating works of art using rubber stamps), interesting graphics-oriented journal (but you should use Internet Explorer when you visit, it's not Netscape-friendly)
• The Old Grey Poet -- "The Journal of a Writing Man" -- well-written and thoughtful daily essays on life in a small English town, photographs of flowers and scenes that catch his eye on walks about the countryside, and a collection of his poetry.
• James Lileks
  The Bleat is a daily (Mon. thru Fri.) discussion of day to day adventures with his pre-school daughter, descriptions of what he's read, watched or listened to, analysis of current events, both major and minor. (He has been doing this since 1997; his archives are here.) He also is a columnist for a daily newspaper and writes a web-column as well. (Hunt around on his site -- he collects matchbook covers, old advertising graphics, terrible early 20th century newspaper comics, etc.)
• Normal Like You
  Molly has had online journals for a long time -- for a while she was webmaster for the Speaking Freely webring -- but since she was holding down two jobs and had to cut back -- now she's moved to a new city in a different state to take a new job.
• C.J.'s Blackbook
  High tech Silicon Valley software wizzard who is deeply into digitally generated music, science fiction, photography, baseball, video games, and one of the long-running journals (since '96).
• Inertia
  Paulinee says that her only claim to fame is that she was born on the exact same date as Sting. A Canadian housewife, mother of two teenage boys, she has a charming sense of humor (uh, or do I mean "humour"), maintains a journal and a message board (and I think there's a blog in there somewhere as well).
• Tight Science
  Jen Wade's online journaling also goes back to 1996 (one of the longest continually running journals, although journal titles have changed) and she was also one of the organizers of the Online Diary History Project. Today she lives in California where she is working on her doctorate in biology.
• The Dragon's Lair Wendy takes care of her dogs (including a stray she and her husband took in last year), maintains her journal website and somehow finds time to run a law office.
• John Scalzi
  A genuine professional author (both print and online) and proud father and game tester.. (his latest novel, The Old Man's War, originally posted chapter by chapter as his December 2002 entries, was discovered online by an editor and will soon be published by Tor -- Scalzi's previous published books were all non-fiction)
• Secraterri Secraterri describes her journal as "an ongoing tale of romance, recovery, and uncomfortable shoes..." She can also be bitingly funny at times... and she and her husband road 2002 miles on their bicycles during 2002.
• Giant Steps
  The frequently mordant comments of Sasha, a painter who lives in California with Travis, her new husband. (I'd Rather Eat Glass was her journal from August of '99 until January '03.)
• A Moveable Feast
  Travis is (in a addition to being Sasha's husband) a professional chef. His journal frequently contained recipes. He has switched from journal to blog format, but work seems to keep him from updating very often.
• Piper Dane
  College student struggling with school and life and school band and boys and relationships and writing and parties and.... Oops, I had the wrong address there for a week or two -- duh! -- now it should work
• Emily
  Emily is a college student keeping one of the longest running online journals, just about six years now and still going strong -- I've been reading her journal since '96, following her adventures through high school and into college... and this spring she will graduate...
• Skaterkat
  Punk rock musician and federal clerical worker, updates infrequently, very infrequently
• Wilma's Word
  Wilma (a/k/a Canadian Jade Angel)is a Canadian woman (of the same generation as Bonnie and Bev and the Grey Poet (uh, and yours truly)... she frequently posts photographs (and will be having a show of her photographs at an art gallery later this year)
• Bobofett.com
  Rants, complaints and comments from someone with razor-sharp sarcasm and a lot of attitude
• Domestic Goddess
  Another Canadian journal, gone through various permutations from personal journal to creative writing to cooking and baking... a delicious site
• JoBear's Site
  Okay, so it's not a journal per se, but Joanne Golphin loves to play with graphics and you can see some pictures of Perth (Australia), find out her latest bowling score, or check out her links to Aussie Rules Football or to the Perth Wildcats basketball team.
• Backward Rain
  Rob Horne, an irigation specialist by trade, lives on a small farm in California; his current day journal entries are paired with entries he'd made in a paper journal when he was a teenager back in the mid-sixties
• Eclipse
  Chris has made his site look like a portal, but there is a journal there; however he goes into hiatus for months at a time, hasn't updated for many months, but he's got a link to my site and every once in a while I get a hit from there...
• Disfunction Junction
  Nance does not mince words, spare feelings, nor worry about political correctness as she discusses her life, her family and the world around her in rants filled with biting comments and take-no-prisoners sarcasm. She can be damned funny but I would sure hate to get on her bad side.

• Hippycrites
  Blog-style entries about the daily experiences of a mom and her toddler daughter, password-protection recently added to keep out the weirdoes.

• Rakku28
  Another college student struggling with school and life and work and family... and angst and role-playing games and computers.
• IshmaelComet -- Jill's pictures and stuff
• Mike -- software professional, computer game player, musician, my nephew
• Liz -- artist, fashion designer, photographer, college student (and Mike's girl friend)
• Sylvie -- an American Eskimo puppy who lives with Mike and Liz
• Chad -- my nephew the graphic designer
• hudsonvalleyclickhere -- my brother's website

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