It didn't seem right, on this day, to blather about writing and publishing, but I also didn't want to say nothing. So I just want to remember where I was ten years ago.

I was in college, my sophomore year. I remember walking through the business building, which has screens everywhere that are always on CNN. I saw the red banner "America Under Attack," and some footage of smoke rising from a building. I wondered if it was some kind of spoof. Seriously, I thought, "I'm in America. I'm standing r...