For years, I listened to my grandparents talk about where they were and what they were doing when they learned that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor. Of course I couldn’t relate to what they felt, what the nation suffered through, or understand the significance of Dec. 7. That all changed ...
It’s been 25 years since the events of September 11 forever changed our lives. Like other major events, those of us old enough to remember also remember where we were and what we were doing when it happened. For me, it was a normal day that started with a four-mile walk at sunrise, ...
It was both collective and personal. A shockwave that reverberates still today. As we all reflect on 9-11, some only through historical footage, I am reflective that everyone’s experience was both unique and identical. My parents were working in a newsroom when the first plane hit the ...
What do you do when you have skeins of unused yarn? What do you do when your friends give you their yarn they no longer want? Or what if you just want to do something nice for others? Let me tell you about Donna Lawson, Liz and Dyana Guznan. I got a phone call from a gentleman living in ...
"True is it that we have seen better days." -- William Shakespeare Pearl Harbor brought out the best in the American people. We responded by pulling together for a major mobilization when an act of war landed on our soil in 1941. That December day, which Franklin Roosevelt eloquently ...
When I was the executive director of the Boys and Girls Club of Alpena back in the ’90s, I became the surrogate mother to five resident comet goldfish in an 80-gallon aquarium placed just outside my office. One afternoon, there was a huge uproar. I heard the children shouting. I noticed ...
