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ON RESONANT LOVE

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.

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

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 […]

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WANTING: APRIL 8, 2025

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 […]

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Peace on Earth

Holiday tidings to my writing, support, justice, and 9/11 family members for your readership and engagement. Praise to the ancestors’ eternal lanterns. You are the light and the gift.

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9/11 PRE-TRIAL HEARINGS UPDATE: 2 BRIEFINGS WITH THE PROSECUTION – Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba

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 […]

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WHAT VFMs DO WHEN WAR COURT IS CLOSED

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 […]

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MONOLOGUE SHOWCASE

You are invited! My writing. Professional actors. Memoir- Monologue Showcase. 5-minute stories. Join me! Live. Virtual. Free. Register.

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BESIEGED

8-27-2024 Night over Vermont home.

Today’s post is surrendering of what I hold as publish-worthy prose to journalistic testimony in the raw.

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HOCUS POCUS: Golden Shovel

After Jennifer Michael Hecht When you were twelve, your shadow out cast mine, you’d eat two bowls of long spiral spaghetti straws twirling in a meaty sauce I scratched, red, lip-smacking, mmm. Wednesday nights, the donut shop man is a dervish charmer filling our sack for three dollars for no rhyme or reason. Once, in […]

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