I think writing a diary is a pretty major statement of individuality really. I'm Lady Life.

A Lady Like.

A lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like

I've had a love.

This is un lady like. I'm Kristen. How do you all feel about diaries or journals? Is there a difference between diaries and journals? Side note.

I personally identify with diaries and diary keeping. I know diary keeping isn't

for everyone. I have also had a fraught relationship with my own diaries at various times,

which I can get into that in the unladys room Patreon if y'all are interested, but even if you've never

kept any sort of diary. Who among us hasn't wanted to read one, even hypothetically, or if you have encountered someone else's

diary or journal out in the wild, it doesn't matter if it is a stranger or your closest enemy.

Diaries hold the potential of secrets, of course, but you also run the risk of being caught, or even worse, reading

something you wish you hadn't. And I should clarify to what I mean by diary. I am talking about the

centuries old pen to paper or thumb to keyboard today,

dated entries about whatever's on your mind.

Doesn't matter if it is in a physical journal

or like me, I have all sorts of old Steno notebooks. I've got your classic journals.

I've also got massive word docs that I really need to make sure that they are backed up to some cloud somewhere.

But whatever you are compelled to document just for yourself.

And what today's guest, Sarah Gristwood, said at the top of this episode about the

diary as a statement of individuality really resonated for me in terms of why I started keeping a diary when I was a girl, probably

eight, nine years old.

Like it felt like the safest possible space

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