on this day

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: 1449 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.

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

  1. On This Day: January 1, 2019/2021
  2. On This Day: January 13, 2017, 2018, 2020
  3. On This Day: January 15, 2020/2022
  4. On This Day: January 22, 2017/20/21/22
  5. On This Day: January 25, 2017/2019/2021
  6. On This Day: January 26, 2017/2020/2021/2023
  7. On This Day: January 27, 2017-2023
  8. On This Day: January 30, 2017-2023
  9. On This Day: January 31, 2020/2021
  10. On This Day: February 2, 2017-2023
  11. On This Day: February 3, 2018/2021
  12. On this Day: February 6, 2017/2019/2020/2021/2023
  13. On This Day: February 7, 2017/2018/2020/2021/2022/2023
  14. On This Day: February 8, 2019/2020/2021
  15. On This Day: February 14, 2017-2023
  16. On This Day: February 16, 2017-19/2020/2022
  17. On This Day: February 19, 2021
  18. On This Day: February 20, 2017-2023
  19. On This Day: February 23, 2017/2020/2023
  20. On This Day: February 25, 2017/19/20/22/23
  21. On This Day: February 27, 2020
  22. On This Day: March 8, 2017/2020
  23. On This Day: March 13, 2017, 2019-2022
  24. On This Day: March 14, 2019
  25. On This Day: March 20, 2017/2018/2019/2020
  26. On This Day: April 9, 2021
  27. On This Day: April 19, 2017/2018/2019/2021
  28. On This Day: April 20, 2017 and 2021
  29. On This Day: April 27, 2017
  30. On This Day: May 3, 2017/2019/2021
  31. On This Day: May 4, 2021 and 2022
  32. On This Day: May 17, 2021
  33. On This Day: May 21, 2017 and 2020
  34. On This Day: June 23, 2017/2018/2019/2020/2021
  35. On This Day: September 11, 2019/2021/2022
  36. On This Day: September 14, 2020/2022
  37. On This Day: September 20, 2018/2022
  38. On This Day: September 25, 2017-2022
  39. On This Day: October 10, 2019/2022
  40. On This Day: October 16, 2017/2019/2020/2021
  41. On This Day: October 17, 2021/2022
  42. On This Day: October 31, 2022
  43. On This Day: November 8, 2021/2022
  44. On This Day: November 4, 2019-2020
  45. On This Day: November 10, 2017, 2020, 2022
  46. On This Day: November 15, 2017, 2020/2021
  47. On This Day: November 17, 2019-2022
  48. On This Day: November 19, 2021
  49. On This Day: November 20, 2017, 2019
  50. On This Day: December 4, 2017/2019/2020/2021 2022 version
  51. On This Day: December 4, 2017, 2020-2022 2023 version
  52. On This Day: December 21, 2019/2022
  53. On This Day: December 22, 2019/2020
  54. On This Day: December 29, 2019/2021/2022
  55. On This Day: December 31, 2019/2022