Tag Archives: Chris Larrabee

September 11th and Why It Will Always Matter to Me

Posted 11 September 2011 | By | Categories: Holiday | 6 Comments

Disasters change the way affected societies think about the world. For instance, 9/11 changed our politics here in the US, and it will probably never look the same as it did before 9/11. That’s a societal change. We all now, as a group, behave, for better or worse, differently. We’re no longer oblivious to the [...]

Chris Larrabee: A Day to Remember

Posted 11 September 2010 | By | Categories: Holiday | 5 Comments

  “I myself have said, you are gods, and all of you are sons of the most high.”   -Psalms 82:5     Chris Larrabee was my best friend in 6th, 7th, 8th and part of 9th grade, and he died in the World Trade Towers nine years ago today.  If you’d like to know about [...]

Let Them Play!

Posted 14 September 2009 | By | Categories: Behavior | 16 Comments

  My boys do gymnastics.  While it is physical activity, which is good, it isn’t free play.  Free play with other kids is a necessary part of child development.  There is an article in the Boston Globe that is reporting on the need for kids to have unstructured play.  Apparently kids lack the imagination these [...]

Chris Larrabee

Posted 11 September 2009 | By | Categories: Holiday | 19 Comments

  Some things in the world are black and white, night and day.  The attacks on September 11th 2001 were pure evil cut and dry.  No justification no equivocation – just plain evil perpetrated by despicable people who were guided by despicable beliefs.  Those debased individuals following a sick cult killed my friend Chris Larrabee [...]