Tag: 9/11

September 11 – Redeeming the Day

 September 11, 2018

On a rainy September 11, in 2010, on the campus of Michigan State University, my daughter Ruth married her college sweetheart. They had been aware of the significance of the day as they struggled to find a date that worked. They finally determined that this was one way to redeem a day fraught which such […]

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Remembering 9/11

 September 11, 2017

Ordinary Time – Season of Stability Life would never be the same, or so many insisted after 9/11. We walked around in a daze for weeks feeling our existence as a nation had been threatened, our sense of security taken away. We kept wondering, when would the other shoe drop? Where would the next terrorist […]

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Chasing Down Pests

 September 6, 2017

Ordinary Time – Season of Stability (Author’s note – I wrote this reflection the year following 9/11. As I hunted down these pests, I found myself comparing  them to terrorist cells. Just as it took months of being on guard against another infestation, I figured it would takes months of work to clear these groups […]

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Remembering 9/11

 September 10, 2014

It was a beautiful evening last Saturday. My husband and I were taking our puppy, Seamus, for a walk in the neighborhood before the Michigan State football game. Our plans were to relax and watch the game after tiring Seamus out with a walk. We were talking, enjoying the moment when a hundred pounds of […]

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