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The reconstruction of one of the last buildings in the area of the original World Trade Center is almost complete. After more than two decades, the site of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was rebuilt and consecrated on July … Continue reading →

There are numbers etched in my mind and heart from the tragic morning of 9/11. – 2,977 lives lost – 343 bravest of the brave – 23 of New York and New Jersey’s finest. Most of these numbers are well-known, … Continue reading →

Birds fly all over Manhattan; you cannot miss them. They leave droppings all over the place: on cars, statues, people. You get the idea. Yet, on that beautiful Tuesday morning, a bird ­ an innocent bird, flying in lower Manhattan … Continue reading →

Photo © 2010 Michael P. Judge. Used by permission. All Rights Reserved. I listen to the radio on my iPhone, mostly Q104.3 out of New York City. It is a classic rock station with a stunning morning man, Jim Kerr, … Continue reading →

So this is how it ends. About 8 years ago, I had an Electromyography link, EMG, done after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The test results stated that I would lose the use of both legs, the right one … Continue reading →

Dawn will rise again as it has for decades. People get up and go to work or school. Children will be born, and adults will take their final breaths. As rebuilding continues throughout Lower Manhattan – some not scheduled to … Continue reading →

As the anniversary approaches, I think of what has diminished in the time since that Beautiful Tuesday Morning. It is the continuous loss of life that goes on now. When the gray plume of ash surrounded lower Manhattan carrying carcinogens, … Continue reading →

Another day, another morning with brisk sunshine has begun, just as it had sixteen years ago.  I have moved seven times in the last sixteen years, it’s as if I were a nomad, looking and searching for what I would … Continue reading →

The Mets were in a penned hunt that like they are this year, there were in Pittsburgh for a series when it happened, and yet, it doesn’t seem like fifteen years that the New York skyline was darken by hate, … Continue reading →

On February 2nd, I started a new job in Utica New York. The position is at the department of motor vehicles in the state building. The building itself is a good forty year old and has several state agencies and … Continue reading →

I was out Monday night and hanging with some people in Richmond. We were discussing the various topics of the day, the begging of the football season, the ending of the baseball season, Ray Rice and the likelihood of his … Continue reading →

Well, this has been interesting month. However, I saw this coming in June. I asked my boss what would happen if no federal budget in place on October 1, how badly would it affect our team? As a contract management … Continue reading →

I finally saw “Argo” Saturday night on HBO, and remember the true events like it was yesterday.  What blew me away was that our friends to the North, Canada, gave refuge to six embassy employees without question.  But this isn’t … Continue reading →

After over a year of working on the online course, I applied to the Susquehanna Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired for a position as a Closeout Contract Specialist.  There had been plans to add people to their Philadelphia … Continue reading →

“The reason we were attacked, the reason these people are dead, these people are missing and dead … They weren’t doing anything wrong, they were living their lives, they were going to work, they were traveling, they were doing what … Continue reading →