topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call I was praying. In earnest. The Europeans all do this gap-year thing and I was giving it a whirl. But I’m a New Yorker who rarely left the island Manhattan. And now here I was on the Emerald Isle—when […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call PERHAPS IT’S NORMAL IN THE WAKE OF THE DEATH OF A friend you’ve known for so long – and I knew Jif longer than almost anyone in my life – to romanticize youth. So many emotions flood into the […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call The Aon (nee Amaco) building stands shorter only than the Sears Tower in the lineup for Chicago’s skyline. Its base covers near two city blocks and boasts a colonnade of ash trees bordered by rotating seasonal arrangements, steps from […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call “World. War. Three.” Those were the three words that I heard as my radio alarm clock cut in to my sleepy state at 6:30am on 11/9/01. It took me a few minutes for the words to register with my […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call It is hard to believe that it is now ten years since the 9/11 attacks took place. The horror that occurred in my hometown of New York City haunts me still. I was here in my office in Dublin […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT  as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call I remember September 11, 2001 like it was yesterday. It was a beautiful fall day, cool and sunny. The sky was the clearest blue you can ever imagine and there was not a cloud in sight. On that day […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call On the evening of September 11, I watched the news with my teenage children. We said little, because whatever we said would seem trite compared to the video of fire and smoke and debris that rained repeatedly from towers […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call Landline: The phone that rang over and over until I hopped down off my dorm room top bunk to answer groggily. It was roommate’s boyfriend, Justin, asking if I knew where she was. I didn’t. He said I’d better […]

topic: 9/11 medium: TEXT as submitted for the “9/11” Open Call We had visitors from Germany and were enjoying a leisurely breakfast on the patio. It was a crisp-bright morning in Houston, when the telephone rang and our daughter said in an agitated voice, “Mom, turn on the TV!” We […]