Libraries have been a safe zone for me, a kind of emotional and intellectual ground zero for the past 15 years.
"It was outside of the comfort zone for me and my family," Karner said, but the increased opportunities he's had in New York have been a big benefit.
This was a zone of peace for me, the calm place away from chaos.
The growing sense that sectarian conflict was always at the gates of our green zone of contentment filled me with worry--while he was too blithe about it.
I try to draw a zone of separation around me but oddly enough the collective silence seeps in and helps quiet my anxieties.
My car had represented a small zone of personal freedom for me.
When he was no longer physically in front of me with his body and his voice, his temper and his eyes, in a way he disappeared from my life, in the sense that he was reduced to a kind of discomfort I occasionally felt when he called or when something reminded me of him, then a kind of zone within me was activated, and in that zone lay all my feelings for him, but he was not there.
Reading the Department of Justice's recent report on the police in Ferguson was a kind of Twilight Zone experience for me—I literally shook my head twice at some of the findings, especially the most scathing sections, to make sure that the authors were describing Ferguson police and not the NYPD.
A friendly actor dressed as a wolf, with the impressive-sounding title of "zone captain," set me in my place and had me practice my part: I was to pop out from the shadows and yell, "Be quiet!" I took to it instantly, of course, and banged my cane for emphasis so hard that I broke the top off.
To me, that was the time zone of possibility and wonder.
