Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
The Eagle Rock Reservation hilltop is a two-way mirror. It offers a sobering look back at all this nation lost on 9/11, life affirming proof of human resiliency and the opportunity for internal reflection. It's a spectacular view. We stood there Sunday afternoon and felt just a hint of what the residents of New Jersey [...]
I don’t believe this country will ever forget the events of 9/11, the images of falling buildings and crashing airplanes, and the awful reality of watching nearly 3,000 human beings die in real time. The question, especially during this particularly challenging year, is whether we will remember its lessons. If you put a slash between [...]
Where were you on September 11, 2001? I was dropping my youngest daughter off for her first real day of pre-school. We listened to Murphy and Maino, a local morning show, on the radio as we drove to school, her buckled into her car seat way in the backseat of our giant conversion van, and [...]
I could have written about each 9/11 victim every single day and it would have taken me more than eight years to cover them all. I thought about that 14 years ago, and I thought about it again last week when I visited Ground Zero. The number of victims, 2,983, still seems mind boggling and [...]