Yesterday, my housekeeper of 20 years got a full time job offer from another family, and told us she would be leaving. I’m so happy for her that she’ll have benefits and a daily gig. But then I put the phone down and sat down on the floor and cried. Dora started coming to my parents house a couple of… Read more →
Author: Morgan
Love At First Light
It came flatpacked from Germany and in about ten minutes (twenty with the hard-wiring) Scott had easily pieced it together and transformed our reading corner. And it was a perfectly perfect fit…because Him + Her had graciously tweeted with me about measurements and seen photos of Max’s future home. But really, isn’t it so pretty? It’s kind of like… Read more →
Slowly But Shirley
Actually it’s Ethel. Her breaks are working, and Scott painted the roof. We’ll get the old girl running yet. Read more →
We’re Awesome at Camping
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 1000 times…REI is THA BOMB. (That’s right, I wrote it ’90’s style because that’s how serious I am about this shiz.) So you already heard about my shopping trip to buy goodies for our big beach camp-out in Malibu Carpinteria (it’s hard to get a camp site this time of year in… Read more →
Hey, It’s Me Again.
I never know how to come back from heavy stuff. All week I’ve read my friends beautiful posts over and over and thought “I gotta wrap this up” but how do you wrap up something like this? Especially when I still have posts I want to link to like THIS ONE from my fellow NYU Alum {link very graphic} Tracy… Read more →
Melaina: Creepy Internet Friend
I didn’t know Melaina (not her name) on 9/11, but I know her now…as the infectious Ex-Pat Mom of a toddler in Glasgow whom I became friends with despite continents and oceans between us. Until Melaina, I had never known anyone who was living in DC on 9/11 – she was a 21-year-old student at The George Washington University. This… Read more →
Katie Notopoulos: Mad Internet Scientist
The night of 9/11, I called a recent ex-boyfriend around 11pm. “I just don’t think you should be alone tonight….” I said in my faux-concern for his well-being. He wasn’t taking the bait, and understandably he didn’t want to risk the subway ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Rejected. I called another ex who lived out of town and I had… Read more →
Neal Dusedau: Screenwriter, Wine Guy, Glue
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 →
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 →