Originally posted May 21, 2018. For My Mom: Memories of 295 Union Avenue When I was 3 and very small, I remember napping in a quiet room. The scent of lilacs entering my dreams along with the sound of steady, gentle rain…. The surrounding trees created a soft, energetic circle all around me, and this was safe like home. When I was 4 and still so very small, I would wander the enormous majesty within our home fences… Touching purple irises, finding praying mantis’ cocoons… I’d

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Originally published September 11, 2011. It was a beautiful September day, blue sky, white clouds. Got in my car, went to the bank, then headed to the doctor’s office for an appointment. I didn’t have the radio on in the car. When I got to the doctor’s office, everyone was talking about it. The World Trade Center had been hit. Hit? Bombed? No, no..….a plane, and two towers had been hit. A plane? What? What? What are you saying? This can’t be…I felt shivers all over my body. W