Essays Category
9/11 PRE-TRIAL HEARINGS – Update: Day 1 NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA
Posted on November 8, 2024 Leave a Comment
November 7, 2024 Hello from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I am attending weeks one and two of the final three-week session of the 9/11 pre-trial hearings. This is my fourth trip in twelve months. After a three-day threatening weather related delay, the final 2024 session of pre-trial hearings in the 9/11 case, regarding the four (of […]
WHAT VFMs DO WHEN WAR COURT IS CLOSED
Posted on October 8, 2024 Leave a Comment
Good afternoon from JTF- (Joint Task Force) Guantanamo. What do VFM’s (Victim Family Members) do when pretrial hearings are unexpectedly recessed? Shop for sundries at the NEX. Shop at the Military gift shop for stuffed Iguanas and T-shirts. Tour the @41sq miles of landscape, including abandoned prison sites, on an air-conditioned passenger bus accompanied by […]
BESIEGED
Posted on August 29, 2024 1 Comment
Today’s post is surrendering of what I hold as publish-worthy prose to journalistic testimony in the raw.
A MARRIAGE STORY (Commemorating July 25, 1987 – 2024)
Posted on July 26, 2024 2 Comments
I invite you to join me, as a witness, in the celebration of a true love, innocent, pure, and everlasting.
September, 2023
Posted on September 2, 2023 Leave a Comment
As bright summer days wane into the amber of the autumn equinox, I find my psyche returning to the fragile landscape of shock and grief when the nucleus of my family was ruptured. 22-years later, our avowed devotion is the flame which ignites an unwavering pursuit of truth and justice to hold sovereign nations accountable for their role in supporting and carrying out acts of terrorism on American citizens, on our nation’s soil.
I found some fantastic fudge today!
Posted on May 11, 2023 2 Comments
In honor of David’s birthday, his story is told by the mark of his own pen. I’m pleased to share his gift of words, as brilliant as the light of Venus in this evening’s sky. This is your invitation to the celebration.
MOTHERLINK
Posted on May 15, 2022 Leave a Comment
This past Mother’s Day week has been a trifecta of heavy life-events, each of which warrant a story of their own. Instead of polishing the post I surrendered the gorgeous sun-drenched day with my canine bff, Joni, rather than spending the entirety of the weekend with my laptop. And I’m so glad I made this single right choice.
On Being A Beginner, Again
Posted on February 17, 2022 Leave a Comment
I know how to do a lot of things. I know how to search for a missing person with a toothbrush and a comb. I know how to stage a funeral when there’s no body, and how to resurrect a broken one. I know how to take my child to a doctor when the bleeding […]
Superbowl Sunday
Posted on February 13, 2022 1 Comment
I’m not an American football fan. The oldest in a family of three girls, I didn’t grow up around football. My father was on the high school track team in the 1950’s and my mother was cheerleader and an usherette in high school. I ran track and Cross Country and played Little League Softball throughout […]
January 20, 1982
Posted on January 20, 2022 1 Comment
[In memory of Elizabeth “Lizzie”Anna Rieb, nee Teseny – September 22, 1943 – January 20, 1982] I think we know that nothing lasts forever. That every day something in our relationships, our social strata, our bodies, is ending. Let’s say your taxi-mom job is ending when your son drives himself to a movie in your […]
