While We’re Here

One question a day, about the life you’re in the middle of.

It arrives at 20:30, when the day is finally quiet. Answering takes forty seconds: one sentence, a photo, the exact words.

Written first for parents of small children, because those days go fastest. It keeps any life that is going past too quickly.

Tonight, 20:308 September 2026

What did you notice on the way home?

One sentence is enough. A photo and 15 seconds of the real voice are optional, every day, forever.

The Questions are not sending yet. Copy the link and send it to whoever else was there, so it is somewhere when they start.

Pages of a Volume

Everything kept is pointed at an object. Entries, photos and transcribed voice notes, in order, by season.

14 May 2027

What did they mispronounce today?

Thomas

She calls it an ambliance. Twice at breakfast and once at the window, pointing.

Camille

Ambliance. She has also started saying yesternight for anything that already happened.

A small child’s hand reaching across a kitchen table towards a cereal bowl in late afternoon light

21 May 2027

Who was at the table, and what was on it?

Ruth

Peaches, and the door open. We sat there until the candle went out and nobody moved.

Jude

First warm night of the year. Ruth said we should eat outside and then we did not.

Voice note, 12 seconds. Transcribed: it is half eleven and the door is still open.

A kitchen table late at night with two used glasses, a bowl of peaches, a folded newspaper and a candle burnt low

Volume One: Spring 2027. 41 Entries, 12 photos. $39 keeps it.

Specimen pages, from Records that are not yours. Your own Volume is set from your own Entries.

Tonight there is a question waiting. Forty seconds is the whole of it.