Before and after....

Five years ago today Cory & I started the day in an argument. I left the house early and turned on the radio in the car. Heard something about a plane crashing into one of the twin towers. Thought it was weird. Went to the co-op for coffee where I heard more people talking about it but the details were still fuzzy.

It wasn't until I got in the car and headed to work that I heard about the other tower and realized something was very wrong. I called Cory at him and told him to turn on the TV (the argument was, in effect, over and I cannot, to this day, even begin to remember what the hell we were fighting about.)

These are things I always remember about that day:

• The way I immediately started to mentally divide life into Before and After (for some reason I always think about Kim & I looking at houses the Sunday before - how it was this perfect, pre-fall afternoon with golden sunlight and a cool breeze....)
• Watching countless TV coverage work
• Reading countless news stories and blogs trying to make sense of it
• Having to write a story about the use of blogs
• Ending the day by going to dinner with Cory & Bobby and then later to the True Love Coffeehouse. I think it all made us feel better to be around others.

I suppose I should wax phiosophic about how life has changed and how I've changed but I think that's an intensely private thing and, to be honest, there are still a lot ways that 9/11 affected me that I'm still dealing with.

I think we all are still dealing with it.