Maura Collins: Connection, choice and home

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Maura Collins, of Essex Junction, who is chair of Pathways Vermont and director of policy and administration at Vermont Housing Finance Agency.
My most vivid Sept. 11 memory was my visceral need to get home from work in downtown Boston. Our nation, and for all I knew, my city, was under attack and home was where I would be safe.
My basic instincts kicked in: find my husband, then find our way home.
“Home” in 2001 was our first tiny, sparsely