Well, I did it. As of September 16, 2011, about 1:30 p.m. PT, I have been in every state in this grand country! (In case you’re curious, No. 50 was Oregon, where my sister and I visited with a longtime
9/11/01
The Los Angeles airport Hilton, shortly after 6 a.m. A work colleague and I were talking quietly in our respective beds, figuring out who was going to shower first and reflecting on a great meal the night before. We’d be driving to San Diego for an 11 a.m. meeting with an advertiser. The phone rang.… Continue reading 9/11/01
9/9/01
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
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