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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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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There are two types of sweat glands in our bodies: eccrine and apocrine. The apocrine is found in select areas, notably our armpits, but I wanna talk about our eccrine glands. Those
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If I had my own summer, I’d spend it driving around in an 18-wheeler across America, listening to my favorite podcasts and being faithful to the request of any child excitedly pumping
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As America’s birthday draws near, I am thinking about why I am grateful to belong to this country. We have freedom of speech and many other privileges that humans in history have never
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The attention started coming when I was very young. Then again, when your custodial parents partially raise you in a tavern, as a child you hang around a lot of drunken people
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I won’t be original if I say that 2020 was a difficult year. Some of us may have fallen ill or faced the illness of a loved one, some lost income, and
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