Tag archive for ‘refugees’
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“On 9/11 I Lost New York” 2008
Today, with the world again awash in retrospect, I usually prefer to be blogging about about courtesy, or kittens, or one of any number of safer, happier, topics. Seven years on and I had originally thought not to mark the occasion again. At some point, we just have to emotionally let go inside, or we destroy ourselves. In the end, while I feel no need to make a pilgrimage to a dusty construction site in Lower Manhattan, I still feel a need for words.
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Chicago Traveler Vs. Hurricane Gustav
It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Just ask Matt B. (aka ‘Polomex’), scribe of the Chicago Traveler blog and current refugee from the onslaught of the Gulf Coast’s pesky new resident, Hurricane Gustav.

