The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
“There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.”
“I have seven apartments in the house to keep in a state fit to be inspected everyday by Gentlemen.”