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Welcome to those of you who wandered here after catching me on the radio.

radioWith Ground Zero back in the headlines, quite a few stations have invited me to talk about my experiences leading a disaster relief trip to Ground Zero following the September 11th attacks. These stories, which make up the only widely-published civilian account of the relief work in NYC, are described in more detail in my memoir, Picking Dandelions: A Search for Eden Among Life’s Weeds. **EXCERPT BELOW**

The book also highlights stories from other stages of my life, including time spent living in a southside Chicago homeless shelter to pieces of my grandmother’s experience as a British war bride.

If you’re interested in Ground Zero, or know someone who is, the book is available right now at a special discounted rate (32% off) at Amazon.Com (+ it’s eligible for free shipping). It is also available at select Barnes and Nobles and many Christian bookstores, as well as most major online retailers.

Please feel free to browse the site as well. And please check back soon, as we are nearing the date of our new site design unveil!

(Press contact: sarahraymondcunningham (at) gmail (dot) com.)

BRIEF EXCERPT FROM PART 4 of  PICKING DANDELIONS:

After a few days, even celebrities began showing up. People such as players for the New York Jets and the cast of The hard_hatSopranos. No one, of course — not even the Jets or nearby New Jersey mobsters — could put the towers back together, but they offered a much needed window of distraction from the sadness.


At one point, I told one of my regulars — a graying, middle-aged fireman old enough to be my father — that some movie stars had arrived and were giving autographs.


He looked at me for a long second as if I had just given him the most useless information of his life. Then he took off his hard hat, handed it to me, and said, “You came all the way from Michigan to stand out here in the cold every night — I’ll take your autograph instead.”

He became my favorite customer in that second.

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1 Comment

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    oldmomster August 17, 2010 (8:03 am)
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    Perhaps you should read this article on Scarlett Says blog:

    http://tinyurl.com/28owccw

    good explanation of how many New Yorkers feel. As Americans, we have free speech, but we do place limits on that speech when we feel it is inappropriate to a certain place (an adult bookstore next to a school, for example) or time (showing R movies at 4:00 in the afternoon).

    So, no matter how holy you are, there are times for justified anger and protest. Jesus threw the money-changers out of the temple – guess he’d just had enough of their desecration of holy ground.