I’ve done the same thing now for over a decade. When the 9/11 programs start popping up on cable, I watch every one of them, even those I’ve seen before. It’s certainly not for entertainment; in fact, I’ve been asking …
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A Life-Long Fear of Tornadoes
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Yesterday wasn’t the first time I sat horrified in front of a television watching a tornado in real time crush lives and property. Viewing a tornado as it’s happening generates its own heart-freezing terror, although videos are almost as bad. …
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Shrugging Off the Nudge
There’s the problem of writer’s block, where the spirit is willing but nothing seems to rise out of the creative void. I’ve rarely had writer’s block in the sense of not being able to write something. Words have poured out …
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One Small Star
In memory of Dunblane and Newtown… About 1 a.m. last Friday morning, I shut down the computer, went upstairs, and bundled myself from top to toe. I sneaked out the front door without rousing Rusty and made my way to …
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Darkness in the Season of Light
Like everyone else, I struggled all day Friday to come to terms with the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. There is no coming to terms with it. To think of those babies dying at the hands of that monster is too …
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Sciatica and Charlie Brown
Everything was fine when I left the house around 8:50 this morning. I was on my way to take a stress test at Bethesda North, and Mom had just finished cleaning up in the kitchen and was going to sit …
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