Even though I have lived in Florida most of my life, I will always consider myself a New Yorker. What happened on
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A more anguished look on my wife’s face I have never seen in our 26 years together. As the tears welled in her eyes, I saw frustration, despair and deep, deep sorrow. She closed them, said softly, “No, honey. Just
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It was never my intent to raise my son from the age of four as a single (divorced) working parent. But it was how it turned out. Not because I didn’t try
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For about a year and a half, I worked at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum here in D.C. as a visitor services representative. On my first day, I was walking with my
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I was a reluctant kindergartner. I didn’t like the idea of meeting new people. I wasn’t excited about having a teacher other than my older sister, and I was uninterested in being
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Even though I have lived in Florida most of my life, I will always consider myself a New Yorker. What happened on 9/11 will always have an impact on me, especially when
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I walked out into the Stars and Stripes newsroom in the National Press Building on Sept. 11, 2001, and asked what was cooking. “Slow news day,” said a junior staffer. “And I’m
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In the weeks following 9/11, I decided to journal some of what happened on that day. I recently came across my notes, and rereading them all these years later still brings chills.
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I’m seeing too many posts of the actual attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Especially if you were in New York City that day and lost loved ones, it’s really triggering to see
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On Sept. 10, 2001, the phone rang early in my California home. My youngest brother, who lived in Indiana, sometimes ignored the time difference. After I grabbed the phone and said hello
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It started as most days back then, my husband up early and on the road to his office while I scrambled to get our (then) 13 year old on the school bus,
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