• 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
• Piper Dane
  College student struggling with school and life and school band and boys and relationships and writing and parties and.... just recently resumed posting after a few months of hiatus.
• Eclipse
  Chris has made his site look like a portal, but there is a journal there, he goes into hiatus for months at a time, hasn't posted anything in months...
• Annegrrl's webpage
  Actress and graduate school (theatre) student recently switched from New York City to a Southern grad school...
• 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.
• 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.
• John Scalzi
  A genuine published author (both print and online) and proud father and game tester...
• I'd Rather Eat Glass
  The frequently mordant comments of Sasha, a painter who lives in California with Travis, her new husband. Sasha maintains a journal and a blog.
• A Moveable Feast
  Travis is (in a addition to being Sasha's husband) a professional chef. His journal frequently contained recipes. He has just decided to switch from journal to blog format.
• Bobofett.com
  Rants, complaints and comments from someone with razor-sharp sarcasm and a lot of attitude
• Bev Sykes' journal
  Bev must type about a thousand words a minute -- a medical transcriptionist by trade, she 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 -- 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.
• 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 is holding down two jobs and going to school she recently decided that the only way to have enough time to continue her journal was to move it to a low-maintenance site like Diaryland.
• Skaterkat
  Punk rock musician and federal clerical worker, updates infrequently, very infrequently
• 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).
• Tendril
  Cara build her first journal back in 1996. She was one of the organizers of the Online Diary History Project (check it out, all about the history of online journals, links to some original journals, etc.). She's Canadian, has a delightful toddler daughter, and is returning to school.
• Like Sands Through the Hourglass
  Jen Wade's online journaling also goes back to 1996 (one of the longest continually running journals) 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.
• 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. (Her site is now password-protected)
• I'm No Angel
  Another Canadian journal, the thoughts of a nursing student... daily postings and then days or weeks of silence...
• 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.
• insanitysplace ... the turbulent life and times of Stacy Grant, mid-twenties, elementary school teacher in the south...
• Stephanie Mother of two teen-aged girls, school librarian, cyber-friend of Paulinee
• The Dragon's Lair Wendy takes care of her dogs (including a stray she and her husband recently took in), maintains her journal website and somehow finds time to work in 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)
• 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.

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