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2020: The year we came together, living distantly Posted by Katherine Rose and Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Dec 31, 2020 Alaska Department of Public Safety Commissioner Amanda Price stands alongside photos of Jessica Baggen taken at her 17th birthday party in 1996. Baggen was murdered later that same evening as she walked home on the Sawmill Creek Road bicycle path. It wasn’t until August, 2020, that “genetic geneaology” was used to identify a suspect living in Arkansas. (DPS image) In 2020, th...

, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. I spent most of 2020 in quarantine. I didn’t spend that quarantine alone. I spent it with my wife, Libby Hill. Libby and I have been married for 17 years, together for more than 20. (We got together the first day of college. Awwww.) At this point, I feel like I know her and she knows me as well as any two people can know each other. But is that true? Our experiences of quarantine have ...

, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Zoom fatigue is real. In early May, I asked a good friend of mine if she wanted to hop on Zoom, and she sighed. “I’m so sick of Zoom,” she said. “I just can’t do it anymore.” For so many of us, the endless array of virtual meetings at work and virtual hangouts with friends takes a toll that only further reminds us we’re not actually in a room with people. So when I talked ...

The Lost Year: Exercise in quarantine, keeping a business alive, and the unusual intimacy of Zoom Vox.com 12/31/2020 This is , a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Zoom fatigue is real. In early May, I asked a good friend of mine if she wanted to hop on Zoom, and she sighed. “I’m so sick of Zoom,” she said. “I just can’t do it anymore.” For so many of us, the endless array of virtual meetings at work and virtua...

The Lost Year: A year in the life of a mail carrier (The year is 2020) Vox.com 12/30/2020 This is , a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Natalie is a rural mail carrier in Nevada, and the United States Postal Service has had one hell of a year. When I set up our interview for this series, I was particularly interested to hear how she was handling the increased focus on the USPS in 2020 as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy mad...

, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Natalie is a rural mail carrier in Nevada, and the United States Postal Service has had one hell of a year. When I set up our interview for this series, I was particularly interested to hear how she was handling the increased focus on the USPS in 2020 as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy made changes that drastically slowed delivery times amid both a pandemic and a presidential election. (Y...

, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Just how are in-person sex workers continuing to do business during a pandemic? Human beings are always finding creative ways to have sex in the face of horrible circumstances, so the Covid-19 era should be no different. And according to Tareq, an escort from Los Angeles, people are still hiring. But what’s most intriguing about Tareq’s story is the divide between two types of client...

, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. A handful of people I know have had babies during the pandemic, a typically joyous but stressful life event made 10 times more stressful, at least, by an accident of history. The sheer isolation of quarantine has led to many new parents essentially having to cocoon even more than usual with their newborns. But a particularly fraught story of pandemic birth comes from Jacinta, who lives i...

Finally, we can say it: 2020 is almost over. Good riddance. As we look to finally bring a close to this annus horribilis, America will be living amid the detritus for years — a devastating economic downturn, a generation of students behind in education, the collective psychic trauma of prolonged isolation. 2020 will be hard to forget. But in 100 years, when those of us who lived through the year that everything stopped have died out, how will future generations look back on what happened? How...

The Lost Year: A new baby who didn’t know your face for days because you were wearing a mask Vox.com 12/28/2020 , a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. A handful of people I know have had babies during the pandemic, a typically joyous but stressful life event made 10 times more stressful, at least, by an accident of history. The sheer isolation of quarantine has led to many new parents essentially having to cocoon even mor...