3 July 2025 I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter Music by Fred E. Ahlert with lyrics by Joe Young I’m gonna sit right down...

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...

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:  ...

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...

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...

3 July 2024 I awoke this morning at 7:30, an hour that’s not incredibly early, even for me.  The blast furnace got turned on, yesterday,...

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...

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

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. ...

4 July and 14 juillet 2020 I’ve been experiencing a difficult time trying to stay focused on my translation work. The final chapters of...

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...

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...

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

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

4 July 2018 The Liberty Bell first rang in America in 1753 in the tower of the State House of Pennsylvania. The bell’s got a crack in it,...

My aversion to joining any group is so intense that when I briefly joined an online current-events commentary club, one of my first...

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...

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...