I woke up to the phone ringing. It was my dad. He was on the roof of his office building in New Jersey, watching smoke pour out of the World Trade Center. A plane had collided into one of the towers. Weird. I tried to go back to sleep. I couldn’t. By the time I had the tv on, the… Read more →
Month: September 2011
Sara Moe: Mother, Photographer, Keeper of Memories
{Sara took this picture yesterday. I thought you could use some cheer.} {Ten Years Ago today, Sara shot this, and the other photos that have appeared in this series on a roll of reversal film still in her camera from our trip to Prague that summer. This is her story:} At 8:46am, as flight 11 crashes into the North Tower,… Read more →
Keeley McNamara: Midwife, Mother, Lover of Life
When Morgan asked me to write this piece, I thought, eh. I really hate talking about September 11th. It makes me angry when I’m forced to listen to other people’s experiences, so why would I want to make people hear mine? What I have realized over the last ten years though, is that while my experience on September 11th and… Read more →
Lindsey Anthony: Playwright, Thinker, Documentarian
A world no longer familiar When I try to recall the my life on 9/11, what comes are moments, feelings, a handful of lines, but somewhere a loose story that is pieced together by bursts of panic, what I think are my own memories washed with the images playing non-stop on the news, and a narrative that gets further away… Read more →
Amy Hunt: Speech Pathologist, Thrift Store Connoisseur, Romantic.
{Amy and I on the roof of our East Village Apartment, 9.11.2001 — M} At 8:45am on September 11th, 2001, I went to class. I woke up early that morning, before my alarm had gone off, presumably because the noise of the first airplane startled me awake. I watched as the second airplane hit the World Trade Center and the… Read more →
Dan Brown: Father, Author, Teacher
I witnessed 9/11 in New York at age twenty. A decade later, the experience feels remote. I’m now living in a different city, married to someone I didn’t know then, taking care of a daughter whom I certainly couldn’t have envisioned, and pursuing a career I hadn’t at that time considered. My account below reflects the surreal, shocked numbness that… Read more →
10 Years Later.
Me and the Towers, September 11th, 2001 On September 11th, 2001 I was a twenty year old college student living in New York. My Mom had departed NY for LA on a red-eye the previous evening, and at 11am I had my first internship interview at Miramax Films. I had my own apartment for the first time ever. I was… Read more →
Okay, I finally figured out what I wanted to say about Sister Wives.
Yes, I know that this show is completely five minutes ago, but I’m talking about it anyway. I am a jealous beast. I don’t remember being so damned envious as a kid – it’s not until Scott entered the scene when I was around 17 or so that I really realized just how viciously jealous I could be. Before that,… Read more →
Fall
I don’t know why I couldn’t wake up this first day of fall feeling chipper and raring to go. But I didn’t. I woke up feeling stupid and clumsy and shitty. I had a panic attack before breakfast. Yesterday, I went and put my big foot in my mouth on the internet. You can’t take that shit back. It’s… Read more →