I was sitting in Tim Edins’ HTML or web formatting class my senior year when we got the news. Stupid me thought oh, that’s light years away from me and it doesn’t affect me. I didn’t understand as a kid why it did.
When I realized the impact, I was kind of numb to the emotion. Mom and I wrote a song.
We had a special assembly at school at which I sang a depressing rendition of Sarah McLaughlan’s “I …