Reading the posts of people in NYC is more poignant, touching and personal to me than anything I could read in the papers (but I've been avoiding them). Not just in New York, but elsewhere. I note a lot of people mentioning how a noise that used to be just a noise frightens them - a car backfiring, a plane or helicopter flying by. Same here. Last night one of my cats was up on top of the desk and she knocked a book off and it smashed to the floor. It scared the crap out of me. Imagine living with that all the time. I'd rather not. When I got home from work after picking my son up from the after-school program, when we came to the door, our dog barked. We haven't had this dog very long and for the first three weeks or so, I didn't think she *could* bark. It was just one "arf!" but my daugher, who was in the house, nearly jumped out of her skin. I feel like a kid afraid of what might be hiding in the closet at night. Wondering how long it takes, if ever, before a noise is just a noise again. Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
