25 January 2025 Not the haggis.   I’m really not up to haggis this year, or any year.  I’d rather have guts than eat them!   I offer...

January 2025 Right or Wrong Composed by Arthur Sizemore and Paul Biese, with lyrics by Haven Gillespie   Just One of Those Things by Cole...

January 2025 It’s Magic Music by Jule Styne, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn; French translation by Debra Milligan You sigh   the song begins  ...

6 January 2025 Epiphany Cry Facho! Four lonnnnng years ago, in January 2021, I purchased an old black leather jacket from an online...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025! There are many Americans who are ending this past year with “Good Riddance.”  The sentiment is justifiable, but I...

23 December 2024 Hound Dog by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller; Changes by Debra Milligan You, you, you ain’t nothing but a hound dog  ...

Winter Solstice 2024 By the fall of 1940, forty-eight Jewish orphans had been rescued and conveyed by Guillaume and his compatriots into...

Christmas 2024 You’re All I Want for Christmas by Seger Ellis and Glen T. Moore; French translation by Debra Milligan You’re all I want...

December 2024 From Mrs. Christmas Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Music by Hugh Martin, original lyrics by Ralph Blaine; changes...

8 December 2024 Sometime during the autumn of 2019, I was in the midst of translating a chapter of THE DAWN into L’AUBE.  My method in...

December 2024 Santa Claus is Coming to Town Music by John Frederick Coots, with lyrics by Haven Gillespie You better watch out You better...

Christmas 2024 And The Angels Sing Music by Ziggy Elman, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer We meet, and the angels sing   The angels sing the...

Winter Solstice 2024 Try to Remember Song composed by Harvey Schmidt, with lyrics by Thomas Collins Jones Try to remember the kind of...

Feast of St. Nicholas 2024 Petit Papa Noël ( Little Father Christmas ) was composed by Henri Martinet, with lyrics by Raymond Vincy. ...

Winter Solstice 2024 I am always contemplative this time of year.  The weather has much to do with my creative mood and the types of...

Thanksgiving 2024 Yes, it has certainly been quite a month for this Constitutional Republic called the United States of America!   The...

November’s End 2024 I’m Losing You/Connais-tu English adaptation lyrics by Carl Sigman of Connais-Tu, musique et paroles par Jean Renard...

Thanksgiving 2024 Kaw-Liga by Hank Williams and Fred Rose Kaw-Liga was a wooden Indian standing by the door He fell in love with an...

Mid-November 2024 When A Man Loves A Woman Written by Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright When a man loves a woman, He can’t keep his mind on...

Mid-November 2024 The Nearness of You Music by Hoagy Carmichael, with lyrics by Ned Washington; French translation by Debra Milligan It’s...