Your Best Day Ever — Just Gerald Magazine
Reader Submissions

Your Best
Day Ever

Had a day worth writing about? Tell Gerald. The best pitches get a full editorial feature.

Every issue of Just Gerald Magazine starts with a day worth writing about. A place, a person, an experience — something that made you stop and think: this is it. This is the one.

We have covered Evan Reeks redistributing 90,860 pounds of food in a single month in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. We have been to the barrel cellars of Código 1530 in Jalisco. We have ridden the Icefields Parkway in a Land Rover and eaten crab Benedict at sixty-eight pesos in Jalisco.

Now we want to hear from you. If you have had a Best Day Ever — a place, a person, a business, an experience worth the full Gerald treatment — pitch it below. The best submissions get a full editorial feature, complete with photography, a Gerald rating, and a permanent home in the magazine.

No login required. No fee. Just your story.

The Pitch

Fields marked * are required.

01 — Who Are You

We will only contact you if your pitch is selected. No newsletters unless you ask.

02 — The Day

One line. The title of your Best Day Ever. Make it count.

Minimum 50 characters. Maximum 5,000. Write like you are telling a friend over a good drink.

03 — The Details

Optional — but the good stuff lives here

04 — Your NBDI Score

Optional — but it helps Gerald prioritise

The Net Best Day Index measures whether a day was genuinely good — for you, for others, and for the world. Rate your day on the sliders below. Your score will be included with your pitch. Read the full methodology →

Your NBDI Score
190
Classification
VERY GOOD
Positive Factors
Personal Joy5

How much genuine joy, wonder, or growth did this day produce for you?

0 — None10 — Maximum
Connection Quality5

How meaningfully did you connect with other people, places, or cultures?

0 — None10 — Maximum
Community Benefit5

Did the local community benefit from your presence? Money staying local, jobs supported, culture respected?

0 — None10 — Maximum
Authenticity5

Was this experience genuine — not manufactured, not staged, not a simulacrum of the real thing?

0 — None10 — Maximum
Penalty Factors (subtracted)
Carbon Footprint2

How much carbon did this day generate? (0 = walking; 10 = private jet)

0 — None10 — Maximum
Wildlife Interference0

Did this day disturb, exploit, or endanger wildlife or natural habitats?

0 — None10 — Maximum
Exclusivity / Harm0

Did this day come at someone else's expense — displacement, exploitation, or harm to others?

0 — None10 — Maximum

Your score will be included with your pitch. Gerald uses NBDI scores to prioritise submissions — higher-scoring days get more editorial attention.

By submitting, you confirm this is your original story and you are happy for Just Gerald Magazine to consider it for editorial publication.