There I was, minding my own business in my room at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton, when the place started to shake. It was a Sunday, right around 5 p.m. The lamp at the desk where I was working rattled, and I felt the building sway a bit. I’d been in a minor earthquake in Chicago back… Continue reading 9/9/01
Month: September 2011
The Distance Between “Come Here” and “Live Here”
“There are three categories of people in the Tidewater,” a New York-born and bred woman told me in 2000 when I came to Virginia to speak at a writers’ conference. “There are the