Lori Perkins

By Lori Perkins First of all I can’t believe it’s been 25 years. My son was in second grade. I had just recently left his father. I got a call from my client, Greg Kihn, who was a radio DJ in the bay area. I was one of the few people he knew in NYC and so he out me live on the radio. He wanted to know what I thought about the bombing of the World Trade Center. I thought he was talking about the attempted bombing from a few years earlier. He told me to turn on the TV. I saw the second...

By Lori Perkins I almost wrote an essay about what it felt like to cancel my Washington Post subscription this year after Bezos fired half the newsroom staff. I had been inspired to go into journalism (I have a journalism degree from NYU, where I taught undergraduate journalism because I started a neighborhood newspaper in upper Manhattan when I graduated from college). I didn’t because I figured that most of my readers wouldn’t care that I had taken a bus down to the United Nations once a...

By Lori Perkins I was a teenager when we celebrated our 200th anniversary. I lived in New York City’s Washington Heights on the Hudson River and I vividly remember watching the fleet of international tall ships, many historic recreations, sail up the Hudson past my home. We were all reading Gore Vidal’s historical novel 1876 which was on the best seller list, watching the Bicentennial Minutes on CBS, and excited that the Smithsonian had just opened the Air and Space Museum. Even popular TV...