Sometime in 2021, I added a feature to my running log: On this Day. It uses a plugin my husband Scott created to post all of your entries, through the years, written on today’s date. Since I’ve been writing in this log for more than 5 years, and almost daily, I have a lot of entries (as of March 14, 2022: 1,449 entries). It’s fun and useful to look back on what I’ve written in the past. And, it’s fascinating to witness many different versions of Sara next to each other.
As of March 20, 2024: 2,047
I like using this plugin:
- to track changes in the weather from year to year
- to see how my volume of running has changed
- to rediscover poems I’ve posted in the past
- to be reminded of what I was doing, and to double-check my memories with the “facts” as they were recorded when they happened
- to remember how I felt in the early days of training for a marathon or studying poetry or living through COVID, and to witness how my feelings have changed (or not) as I’ve become used to these things
- to find inspiration/ideas for new experiments/poems/essays in my old words
- to rediscover the words of others that I had posted and forgotten
- to hang out with past Saras
- to witness (some of) the origins of a piece of writing (a poem, an essay)
Some On This Day Summaries
- On This Day: January 1
- On This Day: January 13
- On This Day: January 15
- On This Day: January 22
- On This Day: January 25
- On This Day: January 26
- On This Day: January 27
- On This Day: January 30
- On This Day: January 31
- On This Day: February 2
- On This Day: February 3
- On this Day: February 6
- On This Day: February 7
- On This Day: February 8
- On This Day: February 14
- On This Day: February 16
- On This Day: February 19
- On This Day: February 20
- On This Day: February 23
- On This Day: February 25
- On This Day: February 27
- On This Day: March 8
- On This Day: March 13
- On This Day: March 14
- On This Day: March 19
- On This Day: March 20
- On This Day: March 21
- On This Day: March 22
- On This Day: March 24
- On This Day: March 26
- On This Day: March 27
- On This Day: March 29
- On this Day: April 8
- On This Day: April 9
- On This Day: April 10
- On This Day: April 11
- On This Day: April 12
- On This Day: April 18
- On This Day: April 19
- On This Day: April 20
- On This Day: April 24
- On This Day: April 25
- On This Day: April 27
- On This Day: May 2
- On This Day: May 3
- On This Day: May 4
- On This Day: May 17
- On This Day: May 21
- On This Day: May 24
- On This Day: May 25
- On This Day: May 27
- On This Day: May 29
- On This Day: May 31
- On This Day: June 23
- On This Day: September 11
- On This Day: September 14, 2020/2022
- On This Day: September 20
- On This Day: September 25
- On This Day: October 10
- On This Day: October 16
- On This Day: October 17
- On This Day: October 31
- On This Day: November 8
- On This Day: November 4
- On This Day: November 10
- On This Day: November 15
- On This Day: November 17
- On This Day: November 19
- On This Day: November 20
- On This Day: December 4 2022 version
- On This Day: December 4 2023 version
- On This Day: December 11
- On This Day: December 21
- On This Day: December 22
- On This Day: December 29
- On This Day: December 31