MICHELLE VIGEN RALSTON – Berkeley – 2021
March 9, 2021 was a rainy day and also a Tuesday which is the day our family goes to the local farmer’s market….
SHIRLEY WANG – Princeton – 2021
This March 9, 2021, I woke up in the U.S., for the first time in nine years. I’ve been back in my home…
HELEN HUGHES – Santiago, Chile – 2021
Let’s see. Here in Chile,…. My grandkids, and other relatives of their generation, were supposed to go back to school on the 1st…
TOM SHANNON – Park City – 2021
We got up early and went to breakfast at a restaurant–first time in a restaurant in a year, almost exactly. It wasn’t the…
CHARRI HENDERSON – San Diego – 2021
March 9th was quite a day! We were scheduled for our 2nd vaccination and they cancelled us! So we are now waiting for…
DAN BLUESTEIN – Oakland – 2021
Exactly one year since my last day of commuting to the office, and now working from home with kids yelling noisily behind me…
MATTHIAS LEITNER – Berlin – 2021
We all wanted to be much further ahead this March 9 – after the long interruption from the virus and a tumultuous past…
JACK CHANG – Oakland – 2020
My grandmother slept uneasily during the hour that I sat beside her death bed. Every 10 minutes or so, she would sit up…
DAN BLUESTEIN – Oakland – 2020
Monday morning, March 9 I got on BART and it was noticeably emptier than it had been the previous Friday. I thought to…
CHARRI HENDERSON – San Diego – 2020
Monday , March 9 for us was a bit uneventful with everything going on in our world! Costco was a zoo with water…
GINA GOLDBLATT – Oakland – 2020
My body (which knows better) tells me it’s 6am The clock insists, 7am Anxiety fills my limbs, my contracted neck muscles, the…
DAN SMITH – Sacramento – 2020
Coronavirus. Fourteen hand washings today to repel it. Brain washed of it whenever possible. Forty years a journalist, now in tourism marketing, so…
LISA WILSON – San Francisco – 2020
Walking into work at the Slanted Door there is a sense of frustration among the staff. We only have 60 covers on the…
TOM SHANNON – Park City – 2020
Monday March 9 2020 Mose and I did homeschool (Math, French, Typing, and English everyday), had breakfast, and cleaned the house a bit;…
MICAELA MASSIMINO – Los Angeles – 2020
March 9 wasn’t particularly memorable for us, but March 13 was the day Stuart started working from home, commandeering the dining room table….
ANNIE HERINGER – Berlin – 2020
Today was a weird day because I’m not working right now, but have a shitload of reading to do for my master’s. So…
ALLENE ROHRER – El Cerrito – 2020
On March 9, 2020 I woke up at 6:30am instead of 5:30am but that is because the day before was the time change…
