There is a brass plaque bound tightly to a moment in time–8:45 a.m.–on September 11, 2001. What came before that moment belongs in a separate column, in a separate world, than what has come after. It’s a simple fact. In the world that was: Labor [Read more…]

It was one o’clock in the morning eastern time on August 18, 2001 and I was on an airplane somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. The sun was rising above the clouds beyond my window while the stranger beside me snored loud enough to wake up [Read more…]

I love to travel but find that my constraints (job+empty bank account) often leave me unable to get away as often as I’d like. As a writer, I especially enjoy visiting new places with new cultures and new vistas ripe with inspiration. So naturally, when [Read more…]

I stood motionless in the conference room watching the final launch of the space shuttle program and all I could think was… …we built that. We, as a collective group of people, put our most brilliant minds in a room and together we envisioned, planned [Read more…]