Just as I did every month of 2020, I’m continuing to download and publish a second of every day in 2021. Here’s January:

Right before December concluded, we flew down to St. Thomas, exited the American Airlines 737, walked a few paces across the tarmac, showed some locals our negative Covid test results on my wife’s phone, and entered the Cyril E. King airport. We’d escaped the continental United States for the first time in 2020. The next day, we took at cab to the airport to pick up our rental car and headed to Magens Bay, which has been rated as one of the top beaches in the world. It…

More than a decade ago, when I started blogging and knew lots of folks who blogged, we’d conclude the year with some of our favorite posts and highlights from the year. But 2020 was different. It was also the first time I’ve used the “one second every day” app for an entire year. Trying to capture an interesting second from a year like the one we just endured was, as one can imagine, difficult. During the 3 months I did this exercise in 2019, I captured moments from…