2023 second entry

Second Entry   Sunday, March 15th, 2020 The opportunity to observe a major crisis unfold is rare and captivating.Major crises are often sudden — hurricanes, earthquakes, explosions. Other crises are gradual; climate change has been unfolding for decades. Covid-19...

2023 First Entry

First Entry     Friday, March 13th, 2020 Deaths with no funerals. Refrigerated trucks are reportedly arriving soon, to park outside hospitals to hold the dead. Facts will be at play; they are long out of fashion here. Americans do not like the word no.Things are...

2022

Delayering Introduction Author Bio Contact First Visit to the Memorial First Visit to the Memorial Download PDFListen Monday, September 14th, 2015 To my surprise, I am here.“Here” is almost exactly the midpoint between where the two tall towers stood for only thirty...

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Delayering Introduction Author Bio Contact Emergency Shelter Emergency Shelter Download PDFListen Friday, September 14th, 2001Part 1 This morning, I heard that that four thousand FBI agents, three thousand support personnel, and four hundred forensic lab technicians...

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Delayering Introduction Author Bio Contact Introduction Introduction       Download PDFListen Friday, August 22nd, 2003 I would have thought that a plane flying into a large building would be like an egg thrown at a wall. It hits, the shell cracks, and...

2019

Delayering Introduction Author Bio Contact The First Anniversary The First Anniversary Download PDF Listen Tuesday, September 10th, 2002 9/11 remembrances are getting a lot of chatter this morning, the day before the first anniversary. Yet the news is nearly 100%...