Howard and I just got home from this year's NYC HOG midight motorcycle run down to the World Trade Center. It looks like we had a little over 1500 bikes ( Read more... )

Each 9/11 is different for us. This year was hard all around. For some reason, this one hit Bree and I harder than last year did. For a week leading up to it we both had hard emotional days. I found myself having WTC nightmares again and even had a couple of anxiety attacks. Bree went off with her boyfriend this year and saw a comedy show in the ( Read more... )

A small group of roughly 100, a far cry from the nearly 1000 bikes of last year, went wheels up around 11:15 pm on a stormy NYC night and headed downtown to the World Trade Center. We arrived a little after midnight and laid our wreath by the PATH train since we cannot get a permit for our ride and it is not an official ride in the City's eyes. ( Read more... )

Twenty-five years ago today this happened. He chose me. No matter what happened afterward, no matter how many years pass since he died, I will always remember that out of all the women in this world, Liam chose me. What a lucky person I was. :)

I felt a need to be at the 9/11 Memorial today. I don't know why. I haven't been here since they finished the memorial, set up the pools in the footprints of the buildings. So, I am here, marking and remembering. And never, ever forgetting.

Bree and I are in the 11th row, front and center, for the Cheap Trick/Boston tour. A Fuckin' A!
Rockin' for you, babe.

It's hard for us here at Casa Colhoun. I feel a little guilty that it's the 23rd and I only have a wreath on the door up. No lights and no tree yet and I will only put them up for the benefit of my guests. It hasn't been the same since 2001, not without my Christmas nut here. There have been so many losses around this time of year for us, that ( Read more... )

Last night, somewhere between 700-800 motorcycles rode down to the site and laid a wreath at midnight near the entry to the PATH trains. We are not allowed into the site proper since this is not an official run. At some point, a woman on one of the city's rental bikes joined us for a few blocks as she tried to make her way somewhere. Then there was ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is a lot of things to a lot of people. For some, it is a day of remembrance. For others, it is a day filled with longing and painful memories. For others still, it is just a day. Tomorrow, AMPAC (American Muslim Political Action Committee) and its supporters will be marching un Washington D.C. in the Million American March Against Fear, ( Read more... )

28 years ago today I had my first date with that Irish guy, ;), and 13 years ago today we signed the papers on this wonderful house. Forget him? Not a snowball's chance in hell of that. :)

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