September 20th: Nicole Marcelino
B likes to tell people that Saturdays are heilig1 for me. They'd be "holy" for you, too, if you spent nearly eleven hours on public transit to and from work...
September 15th: Allegra Kaplan
I’ve forgotten that this is my “day,” and so the morning rolls out as it usually has for me this summer—sans the spectre of observation hanging over me....
September 4th: David Chritton
I wake up no worse than yesterday. This is true at least in terms of bodily discomfort—I have mild covid, uninterestingly—but it may also be true morally, I...
August 24th: Katie Russell
5:00am: “Meeeeelk! Meeeeelk!” Toddler screams to nurse. My body says no. 8:30am: Husband asks what I want for breakfast. I don’t know. I’m newly pregnant....
August 20th: Nat Urban
I’ve never had a quiet mind, a constant question in my childhood was “why can’t you just sit?” My brain is more of an overactive pitbull; leave it...
August 8th: Madeline Bodin
Before I even open my front door, I can see that the sky is a flat orangey gray. The sun, although well above the horizon, winks with orange light from...
July 28th: Michael Dubrow
3:30 a.m. I get up to pee and then back into bed. I know from experience I’ll be awake for a while. My thoughts bounce around from people I haven’t seen in a...
July 22nd: James Yamada
I wanted today to be cinematic—to trick This Year readers into thinking my life isn’t entirely mundane—so it feels serendipitous when I sleep through my...
July 17th: Jennifer Lunden
My to-do list is always impossibly long. I make each day’s list on a page in a 5.5” x 3.5” notebook. Lately, the fifteen college-ruled lines aren’t enough,...
June 9th: Josie Levin
I don’t always dream. But we’re in luck because whatever electric current leads to it visits me in the early hours of the morning. I dream I am fighting some...
June 28th: Mischa Kuczynski
spring equinox vision board 4:30 a.m. I wake up from a nightmare and take the dog to pee, then get back in bed and scroll Reddit. I look over at Henry. Will...
June 23rd: Jessica Handler
Phone alarm 7:30 a.m., Glenn Gould storming his way through The Goldberg Variations. The music puts me in mind of my mother, who loved Bach. Go downstairs...
June 20th: Laura Rink
It’s 5am and if I were at home the goldfinch would be tapping at one of the upstairs windows as he has been doing for weeks now. Four inches of bright yellow...
June 1st: Lily Tobias
The Story of a Day 8:30 a.m., Prelude June 1, 2025. Today is twelve years ago. This is an illogical yet true statement. 10:00 a.m., Bad Advice Sophie’s open...
May 29th: Hanne Williams-Baron
7:30am. I wake to the muted sounds of a robotic piano crescendoing from behind the kitchen door. I have been experimenting with “no phone in bed” this year,...
May 22nd: Blue Fay
I am in bed watching the Tales of Yanxi Palace with the blinds drawn. The empress is in a coma, the main character has been sent to the imperial slave house,...
May 12th: Yelizaveta P. Renfro
What is today? Could it be the first day of my sabbatical? I turned in my final grades yesterday, and ahead of me still lie two hooding ceremonies, a...
May 3rd: Adrian J Matias Bell
i’m thinking about clothes. now that the wedding is over, all the energy my partner and i spent on planning it has been freed up, and lately i’ve felt...
May 1st: Arya Samuelson
I’ve been awake for ten minutes and already I’ve descended into Phone Land and flipped through a dozen houses on Zillow – breaking two of my most recent...
April 22nd: Vicki Mayk
April 22, 2025 It is the 112th day of the year. The 16th Tuesday of 2025 The 34th day of spring There are 59 days left until summer. (But who is counting?)...