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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, the COVID-19 pandemic was like the pavement that all other stories rolled on- everything from school c...

, 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 been wildly different. I have mostly spent quarantine doing things, taking on new creative projects ...

, 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 to Melanie — a Seattle fitness studio owner who has switched to teaching classes via Zoom — I ex...

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 virtual hangouts with friends takes a toll that only further reminds us we’re not

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 made changes that drastically slowed delivery times amid both a pandemic and a presidential election. (...