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Autumn Reflecting Absence

Posted on September 22, 2025 Leave a Comment

Image created from personal photographs, enhanced using photo editing tools and Microsoft Copilot. Fall was once another woman’s favorite time of year. For her, cooling temps renewed energy, darkening days shifted from strawberries and cream to steamy apple pies, falling colors signaled lifecycle tinting toward her October birthday. This woman holds a precious contemplative space […]

THE NEWS IS MOSTLY TRUTH

Posted on September 11, 2025 Leave a Comment

This moment always brings me back to here. Dylan’s first day of Pre-K The bus brought him home at 11:30 AM.

ON RESONANT LOVE

Posted on August 1, 2025 Leave a Comment

In the elusive landscape between memory and time, I explore grief, art, and cosmic connection to reveal a love undiminished by death— resonant, requited, and eternally unfolding.

PLEASE DO NOT WISH ME ‘HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!’

Posted on May 11, 2025 Leave a Comment

This Mother’s Day is May 11th. It also happens to be David’s 64th birthday. Chat GPT says it’s a rare occurrence happening in intervals of 5, 6, and 11 years. He has missed 24 birthdays and Mother’s Days. My mother has missed 43 Mother’s Days. She never met David. The last Mother’s Day when Dave […]

WANTING: APRIL 8, 2025

Posted on April 8, 2025 2 Comments

Two weeks ago, the landscaper arrived to pick up sticks and blow winter’s detritus from the gardens. The next morning, everything was covered under a lofty blanket of snow. From a window I observed a cardinal perched regal in the platform feeder under a white frozen roof peaking 10” high, a crowned crimson caller strident […]

MILITARY COMMISSIONS SENTENCING HEARING TRIAL vs. FEDERAL CRIMINAL TRIAL – How Do They Compare? re. U.S.A. vs. KSM, et. al.

Posted on January 23, 2025 Leave a Comment

What is the difference between a Sentencing Hearing and a Criminal Trial? How are they relevant to 9/11 Victims and VFMs?

AS THE CLOCK UNWINDS, A DECISION ON THE JAN 6-17 9/11 PTA ENTRIES HEDGES ON THE BALANCE

Posted on January 2, 2025 2 Comments

January 1, 2025 2025 begins by ringing in the New Year with family in the south eastern corner of PA, idoling 100 miles from Andrew’s Air Force Base, after boarding my dog and driving 430 miles from Burlington Vermont. This first box on the calendar finds me checking email periodically for a notice from the […]