These are only two of hundreds of thousands but the more grievously felt because of how I tried to help. more »

A UN worker, she is one of the thousands and thousands lost but I had the name and query from Mark's site and now I have the photo. It brings it all a little closer. She will be mourned in this little corner and also the larger venues. more »

Lord the memories! Just the casual mention of a parrot in a book I am reading recalls Mrs. Hornaday's yellow and green "pirate parrot." It was Mrs. Hornaday that gave my father his first job working in her greenhouses and retail shop. He worked for her intermittently until the move to Tulsa. more »