In which we ask: What one thing would you grab (besides loved ones, pets, computers) if you had to leave your home in a hurry?
Alyssa Ettinger (ceramicist, writer, New Yorker) says:
This picture of my dad when he was 19 at Niagara Falls.
(Of course, I'd also grab Harriet [my cat] and my computer. And a chunky Mexican sterling bracelet my grandmother bought in the 20s/30s, in Greenwich Village, in the days she thought she was a bohemian...









