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Dona Dona Dona
4 July 2025 Dona Dona Dona by Teddi Schwartz, Sholom Secunda, Arthur S. Kevess, and Aaron Zeitlin On a wagon bound for market There’s a...
Jul 2, 2025


Queen Jolene
End of June 2025 A couple of months ago, I reportedly awoke in my sleep, sometime in the middle of the night, and asked Dear Husband: ...
Jun 25, 2025


Ghost Riders in the Sky
Independence Day 2024 Ghost Riders in the Sky by Stan Jones An old cowpoke went ridin’ out one dark and windy day Upon a ridge he...
Jul 4, 2024


Cry Me a River
4 July 2024 Cry Me a River by Arthur Hamilton Now you say you’re lonely You cried the whole long night through Well, you can cry me a river, cry me a river I cried a river over you. Now you say you’re sorry for being so untrue Well, you can cry me a river cry me a river I cried, cried, cried a river over you. Yes, you drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head While you never shed a tear I remember, I remember, all that you said You told me love was too plebe
Jul 4, 2024


Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Poet
4 July 2023 Country music, such as it used to be, was once the bastion of poets who happened to write songs for sale. The first of this...
Jul 4, 2023


The Tomato is History
4 July 2023 Native to western South America and Central America, the tomato was discovered in 1519 by Hernán Cortés. That Spanish...
Jul 4, 2023


Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Independence Day 2022 Swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home, I say swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home. ...
Jul 4, 2022


The Home Stretch
4 July 2020 We are closing in on the end-of-construction of my Dream House. Yesterday, I visited the site, which has begun to look like a...
Jul 4, 2020


Freedom Unmasked
2 July 2020 Yesterday, I was working on my laptop, quite happily I might add, working on the translation of Chapter 74 of THE DAWN into...
Jul 2, 2020


At Last - 4 July 2019
5 July 2019 My years in Washington, D.C. were wretched ones, highlighted by a half-a-dozen stellar, stalwart individuals whom I...
Jul 5, 2019


The Square Rigger
July 2018 Ahoy: All Hands on Deck! It’s entirely a matter of speculation, but I highly doubt that Lawrence Kudlow, economist...
Jul 4, 2018


The Double-Yankee-Doodle-Dandy
3 July 2017 When we first brought Chance home, we knew that this beagle had some very large paws to fill, although his paws are quite...
Jul 4, 2017


July 2015 - Paradise
I have a unique vantage point in California. Born in New Jersey and raised there during a time of the early decline of the Industrial...
Jul 1, 2015
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