She was like most others, a little sexy, a little crazy and a whole lot of unpredictable. Irene could have been a real big mess for us. We were lucky, no trees fell on our house, no massive floods (though we live on high ground) and only the inconvenience of a power outage. And let [...]
Dad would be celebrating today. He was horrified to see his brethren die on that tragic day when the towers collapsed. We talked in the days after the events of 9/11 about the job that the men of FDNY were doing. I could hear the pain in his voice. As a nation, we rallied around [...]
April is a blur. I’ve been keeping insane hours since the beginning of the month. Each week has been wall to wall busy with different projects, trips, and me bouncing from one meeting to another with barely any downtime to actually do any of the work that I need to do. I’ve been down to [...]
Six-thirty comes early on a Saturday. Rolling over and going back to sleep takes a bit of resistance. Not quite strength, but nothing short of strong will. As the alarm went off this morning I realized two things — this was the second time I’ve set an alarm since leaving Discovery and I really hate WYPR [...]
I was about to write a long winding post about my constant obsessing for changing things, but I don’t have that energy right now. And I doubt that you’ve got the energy to read it anyway. Instead I’m just going to say that I’m sitting in my dining room, drinking good coffee and listening to [...]