Work Work WorkI’ve been searching for my calling for decades. It is time for my approach to evolve.Nov 13, 2024A response icon26Nov 13, 2024A response icon26
The 9/11 Memorial Feels Different NowVisiting the 9/11 Memorial as a survivor.Sep 8, 2024A response icon70Sep 8, 2024A response icon70
Turns out — running was easier than therapy.Using therapy to manage my grief hadn’t worked. Burying my emotions and not letting them out was unsustainable. By the spring of 2002, I…Apr 19, 2021A response icon1Apr 19, 2021A response icon1
Therapy? I don’t need no stinking... Wait, I think I need that.I was dealing with my own grief while trying to help organizations serve others who were also grieving after 9/11. It wasn’t great for me.Mar 5, 2021A response icon3Mar 5, 2021A response icon3
I took the path down a bumpy road.While mourning the loss of my father who died on 9/11, I began working at an organization helping others who were also impacted by the…Jan 31, 2021Jan 31, 2021
Maybe I Was in Denial. It Worked for Me.As much as I have been looking forward to 2021 and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, I have also been dreading this year — and not…Jan 9, 2021Jan 9, 2021
Find Art in All ThingsHe ran into burning buildings by day. On his days off, he created.Dec 10, 2020A response icon1Dec 10, 2020A response icon1
Never Give UpWhen life feels especially grim, look around and use what you have to get through it. But never give up. Ever.Nov 5, 2020Nov 5, 2020
Trying to Live Up to High Ideals Isn’t EasyTrying to live up to the ideal modeled by my father has never been easy. In, fact it’s hard.Oct 29, 2020Oct 29, 2020
