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 →
Category: The Not-So-Trivial
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 →
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 →
The Elephant on the Blog
I’ve hesitated to write this post for like…ever. Mostly because I know that a lot of people are really sensitive about weight and weight loss as a topic in general, and with my penchant for self-deprecation of the fiercest nature, I’m sure to say something nasty about my own self and mortally offend someone else in the process. And I… Read more →
Thirtyday Purgeday: Purging my 20’s
{If I can find the confidence at 30 I had at 3, I think we’re all going to be alright.} On my 20th Birthday Sara and I wandered around Wenceslas square in Prague, and she and Katie bought me this gorgeous Mucha necklace that can’t believe I’ve had for ten years. {don’t worry, I’m not purging the necklace.} That’s how… Read more →