But I still have 94 monkeys to go

If you are going to be in NYC over Labor Day weekend, or think you might be, you should sign up for this run/walk.

This is the third year of the Run to Remember and the third year I will participate in it. The finish heads you straight up the west side of Governors Island to face Lower Manhattan and the site of the former World Trade Center, a beautiful and moving view. With this being the 10th anniversary year of the September 11th attacks, the organizers are looking to have every victim represented on a race bib. I picked Andrea Haberman, who I never met but grew up 3 towns away from me and was very active in Girl Scouts growing up (like I was).

As an adopted New Yorker I try to listen to my fellow citizens, who lost family and friends and neighbors and endured the dust and the police and the fear, and let them set the tone for commemoration. It’s only fitting. But this is what I do to remember.

Apart from the obvious significance of the event, it is flat, fast and lovely and you get to go on the island hours before anyone else.