There you were, just minding your own business, and suddenly the earth split beneath your feet. Everything good, everything familiar tumbles around you in busted shards, or it s ash, or is on fire. That s the scene of the earthquake where Charlie s working, helping to dig out the living and ID the dead. But it s an all-too-apt metaphor for her personal life, which has shifted in an eye-blink from Getting By to Full-On Catastrophic. Again."