It has recently occurred to me to resort to a paper diary for certain internal investigations, and I'm learning something about my own distinction between the public and private and what it means for this blog. The marital universe in all its shifting complexity is not, unfortunately for voyeurs among you, a subject for these pages unless it is sunny and free of blemishes. I wonder how many romantic alliances collapse under the weight of these privacy laws, or- alternatively- under a sense of betrayal generated by public airing of dirty laundry?