Did you avoid all 9/11 references yesterday?

I found myself, on the 15th anniversary of the terrible attacks on the U.S., skipping over a lot of the commemorations, not because it’s wrong to mark the day — at all — but because I’ve been more interested in grabbling with the question: Did we learn anything? I learned there’s a lot I don’t know. I …

Be gentle with each other today

Onward to the day when this day is just another day. I’ll post no more today.My husband lost a cousin — a delightfully off-kilter Irishman who told stories like nobody’s business — and we will spend today sending him home. I love you.