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Nine years ago, for most of America, our world changed. Here in Annapolis, Maryland, a stone’s throw from Washington D.C., where many friends and neighbors work in the city and metro area, a common question is “Where were you on 9/11?” By a strange twist of fate I was working in D.C., no more than 50 yards from the White House. It was a horrible and frightening day that included a White House bomb squad lined up on Pennsylvania Avenue and half a dozen binoculars sweeping the sky. As I was trying to get my head around what what going on and leave the area I asked a Secret Service agent what they were looking for. The answer- another plane. Incomprehensible.
And yet the question most pressing to me right now is not where I was then but where I am now. Yes, the world changed that day. But my world has changed many times since then. I married an amazing woman, I have two young sons, I started my own business. I have a dog. I crashed a car. I went to graduate school. I published my first fiction. To say the things I think and care about today are different from what they were almost a decade ago is a vast understatement.
