Uncurbed enthusiasm: Dan Misener, who works on the CBC Radio show Spark, organized the nostalgia-based reading series Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids. “I think some people go up because they’re natural hams, and some people go up because they think it will be cathartic," he said. "It’s a different thing to revisit who you were in private than to revisit who you were in public.”

The Tranzac community: The Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave.) hosts the free reading series, which takes place about once a season.

Obscene orator: AndrewJehan, 34, took the stage at The Tranzac on Monday night. He read what he called his "List of Insulting Titles: (Names to call People)," which he wrote at age 12 to "develop [his] repertoire of comebacks."

Dear diary: Addressing her diary directly, Yvonne Gettins, 29, read this 1990 entry: “You’re the best. You keep secrets like some people don’t.” As an aside, she added, “You have a lot of secrets when you’re 10.”