( Part one, and Part two.)

( I was part of a new national minority -- Eyewitness. )

(This is the second of three essays I've written about 9/11. The first is here.)

( Never in my life have I been that angry at any human. Never before, and never since. )

(This is the first of three essays I've written about 9/11, and its aftermath. I'll be posting all three throughout the day.)

( There was a thunderstorm earlier. People don't remember that. )

This is a general warning to the world at large ( Read more... )

Every year, at about this time, I start to consider a personal, self-imposed media blackout for the first two weeks of September.

Maybe after ten years of succumbing I'll finally remember to do that this year.

So does it say anything about me that I've just started a playlist on my computer entitled "Quiet Strength and Perserverance, DAMMIT"?

Just wondering.

It's taken an hour for this to sink in, but I saw this just an hour ago:

The government is preparing to sue a dozen banks for mortgage fraud.

Well, that was okay then ( Read more... )

In a nutshell -- Dear everyone: I AM GOING TO BE FINE, and you should stop watching CNN ( Read more... )

Alright, so since everyone else is talking about the Earthquake I'd better weigh in; it really was a non-event. I was at MegaCorp, on the 36th floor, and was only just barely beginning to sense that something was happening when it stopped, so I was about to dismiss it as my imagination. Until people started popping up from cubicles all around to ( Read more... )