portraits

photo by David Eulitt / The Kansas City Star ©

Erin Ray, 17, a senior from Olathe Northwest High School, checks her web blogs every day as she gets home from school in her parents' Olathe home. Ray's online musings of her life (shown with her home page, left computer monitor, a tribute to the Harry Potter books) and reading about her friends' thoughts is a rapidly growing aspect of Internet communications.