Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After Again

  Welcome, friends.   This post will go live on 9/11 and I know all of us will have heavy hearts on the 25th anniversary of that horrific day.  Over the years, my daughters and I have surely talked some about where we were that morning.  Both girls were in high school that September and living at home with me.  I think they had left for school when I turned on the radio while getting ready myself and heard the first announcements.  I thought the radio station was playing some kind of prank - it was just unfathomable that something had happened to one of the Twin Towers - an explosion?  No, an airplane flew into the building?  Was the end of the world far behind? While some states have removed teaching about 9/11 from the curriculum, I am relieved to know that it is still in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS, the curriculum Bible) for Texas.  In the words of philosopher George Santayana, Those who cannot remember the past are cond...