I was going to put up a crafty post today, but I couldn’t. I’ll post it tomorrow. Today I’m really feeling the memory of 17 years ago. Some years I can get through this day pretty much OK, other years I feel it for weeks before and after. This is one of the harder years. I can’t bring myself to post about crafts as if it is just another day. I find myself at a loss for words today. So … Read more
*trigger warning: about 9/11, language 13 years. It still feels like yesterday, and it feels like a lifetime ago. In my cleaning, I unearthed my journal I started in 2002. There was an entry on March 18th that I am going to share with you. I took a photo of some of the pages, but it is hard to read, so I am just going to type it all out for you. Things to know about who I was at … Read more
Ten years ago from Sunday (tomorrow). It was a Tuesday morning. I woke up in my Queens apartment early feeling a bit…off. I got ready for work – Costume Shop Manager for the theater department at Adelphi University in Long Island, just a couple miles east of Queens. I dressed in all black, and wore dark make-up that morning; it matched how I was feeling. As I was leaving I grabbed a stuffed monkey my father had given me a … Read more
