Category: diary

Former Student Reunites With a Diary From His Sixth Grade After 33 Years

A retired Canadian teacher, who couldn’t bear to throw away unclaimed diaries from his classes’ creative writing projects in the 198os, has tracked down many of his former students. With the help of social media, Hugh Brittian, 78, sent the time capsules, replete with preteen secrets, opinions, and ambitions, back to their original owners. One…


Woman Posts Diary Entries of 1957 Stay-at-Home Mom on TikTok–and They’re Hilariously Relatable

A housewife’s old diary from 1957 was dredged up at a thrift store in west Tennessee, and the contents are a goldmine of vintage nostalgia and delight. A local woman named Kaitlyn Sawyer discovered the diary, and decided to share excerpts from it on TikTok. Within weeks, her videos were going viral. Her followers simply couldn’t get…