Welles Crowther, a 24-year-old equities trader widely known as the “Man in the Red Bandana,” carrying an injured person to safety during the September 11 attacks in 2001….. Welles Crowther was a 24-year-old equities trader working on the 104th floor of the South Tower on September 11, 2001. After Flight 175 struck, he covered his […]
I am putting makeup on on Sunday. Why am I putting makeup on on Sunday? Am I going to mass? No. A wedding? No. Dancing? No. A Zoom meeting? No. Some unexpected Sunday evening social event? NO. I am preparing for a 9 PM fire alarm. Friday night, the building fire alarm went off a […]
The swallows are fighting. They are aerial fighters. They streak through air side by side and body slam each other mid flight into walls. There are harsh thumps when a body slammed swallow hits a wall. They are not kidding around. They are seriously trying to hurt each other. No one has hit the ground […]
I just watched a Youtube interview with Ethan Smith, CEO of Graphite.io, who said they ran some tests and more than half internet “written” content right now is AI generated, which equals less than half of the internet “written” content being written by humans. Now I’m imagining people all over the US in front of […]
I talked myself into getting a new office chair tonight. I love my office chair, but it’s 15 years old, has had the casters replaced more times than I remember, and I’ve rebuilt the seat at least three times, maybe four. I could redo the seat again, which right now is taped together because it […]
Sometimes, a task feels overwhelming to me. Too big to take on and I start spiraling. And then I remember two words. “Be brave.” And I whisper that to myself, “Be brave,” and everything is okay and I go do it. I have done a lot of what look like brave things. Leapt out of […]
I used to play Tetris all the time on Eddie Izzard’s site. All. The. Time. I had high score a lot there too (you could look it up if the game was still up on Izzard’s site, player name Cujo). And who knows what kind of havoc people playing that game on Eddie’s site played […]
Me: What if I put on the hat, the gloves, the scarf, the boots, the neck to ankle coat, but don’t put on the full length pants? Surely the floor length coat will cover for the — Cold: No. Me: Shorts are nice. Cold: Do you like your knees? Me: You are not very good […]
I do not have many words for 911. It was a terrible astounding mind numbing day. All I can think is to remember the lost and say to them, You are not forgotten. We remember.
Each time I move, I face the same struggle. The boxes. Me: They are great boxes! Also Me: Recycle them. Me: The packing material was expensive! Also Me: Recycle it. Me: But but but but but — Also Me: We’re not paying for storage for a year to save moving boxes and packing material. Me: […]