Closing the loop

Photo by Rob McMahon

2001 and the seven years that followed were formative for me. I’ve written about it elsewhere so I won’t tell the whole thing here. Suffice it to say, I learned way too much about 9/11 — and who the hell wants to be an expert on that? It was a lot and I felt that because of it, I was a lot. I felt like a drag at parties whenever anyone asked what I did for a living. My office overlooked Ground Zero, which at that point was a construction site, and I was…