When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.