I’ve been trying to write. So many projects almost done…but I just couldn’t jump into crafting stories about made-up people when the stories on the news all weekend were so mind-numbingly awful. There was no escape, even though I stopped watching television or listening to anything but music radio and Christmas CDs, because everyone, everywhere is stunned by the slaughter of 27 innocents in Connecticut. 9/11 I still remember as if it were yesterday – I’d been out for a morning bike ride on what I’d thought was a normal sunny early autumn day. Just as I got home, my girlfriend called to tell me to turn on the television. I stood there in my helmet and cycling gear, gob-smacked that this was actually…

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