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9/11 PRE-TRIAL HEARINGS UPDATE: 2 BRIEFINGS WITH THE PROSECUTION – Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba
Posted on November 16, 2024 Leave a Comment
November 12, 2024: (Tuesday, 1:30-3:00 PM) Lead Team Prosecutor, Clayton Trivett; Attorney, Nicole Tray; Chief of Litigation Support, Meghan Gentry Tuesday, at 11:00 AM, Military Judge, Air Force Col. Matthew N. McCall, abruptly called to end the 53rd session of the 9/11 pre-trial hearings in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, exuberantly bounding from the bench, with a […]
MONOLOGUE SHOWCASE
Posted on August 30, 2024 Leave a Comment
You are invited! My writing. Professional actors. Memoir- Monologue Showcase. 5-minute stories. Join me! Live. Virtual. Free. Register.
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.
COUNTERTERRORISM
Posted on September 10, 2022 4 Comments
after Kerrin McCadden my husband’s portrait is in a collage behind glass on a museum wall of prayers his name is announced by the son who never spoke it his smile is cast into homes of people we don’t knowhis name echoes across a plaza where there used to be buildingshe’s a good dad who […]
VACATIONLAND
Posted on August 26, 2022 5 Comments
This poem is an elegy to the day my son and I released my sons’s ashes into the pond we haave been vacationing at since the boys were six and two-years old.
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 […]
All That Terrible, Beautiful Music
Posted on December 23, 2021 Leave a Comment
What can I say, my daily mood is underscored by intense sadness. I lose my son every minute of every day—in the grocery aisle, at a red light when a BMW 350 xi passes by while an NPR guest discusses how breathwork and yoga changed her traumatized brain, saving her life. In every store […]
