I Prefer The Window Seat When I Fly On Jets

I arrived in Atlanta this morning via jet. It got me thinking: When flying, many people prefer to have an aisle seat. But not me.

First, I like the window seat so I can see what’s going on outside. The view of the earth from tens of thousands of feet in the sky is breathtaking.… Read the rest

Remembering 9/11 And Pondering A New President’s Impact

I wrote the following two years ago, and not a lot has changed.

Remembering 9/11

It’s eerie – today, September 11, 2006, is a cool, crisp morning, signaling that fall is on its way. I’m sitting upstairs at the bay window of our Brooklyn Coop, right where I was five years ago at 8:46 AM, when the Bloomberg radio program I was listening to went static.

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