I was driving to work and listening to Bob Dornan's radio program. He was talking about a plane hitting a WTC tower and I thought he was getting ready to interview some fiction writer or something. I always learned a lot about history listening to his dialogue, but I thought he'd gone off his nut that day.

Then Bob said something like, "Oh no. Oh. No." The tone of his voice told me something horrible and too real had happened. I listened another 15 minutes or so.

When I got to work (I taught Microsoft Word and Keyboarding at a junior college) I asked a student to find a news feed on the net. We were able to catch the news intermittently over the next 2 hours, but the net servers were all overloaded and it was a hit-and-miss deal.

I went home after lunch and my daughter came over. One of her friends came over and the three of us just sat there watching the news all afternoon. We were shocked, stunned, and very glad to have one another's company.