10 November 2024 Until It’s time for Me to Go by Buffy Sainte-Marie; French translation by Debra Milligan   I’m not a dream, I’m not an...

November 2024 It’s Just a Matter of Time Written by Brook Benton, Clyde Otis, and Belford Hendricks; Changes by Debra Milligan Someday,  ...

9 September 2024 Hindsight, so the saying goes, is 20/20. As is the case with me and any aphorism, cliché or idiom, even during this rare...

19 July 2024 This morning, I made a command decision to try to find a red top, or dress, to purchase for autumn.  I want to get into The...

Late June 2024 Mon Crédo Musique par Paul Mauriat, paroles par André Pascal Oui, je crois qu’une vie ça commence avec un mot d’amour Oui,...

9 February 2024 Breaking free of anything, or anyone, occurs only with the determination that freedom is the goal.  The breaking action...

November 2023 Crazy Written by Willie Nelson Crazy I’m crazy for feeling so lonely I’m crazy Crazy for feeling so blue. I knew You’d love...

October 2023 Over the Rainbow Music by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There’s a land...

11 September 2023 God Bless America by Irving Berlin God bless America Land that I love Stand beside her and guide her through the night...

25 January 2022 This second child of Queen Victoria, the last monarch of the House of Hanover, and of her consort and first cousin,...

18 August 2021 Times there are in your life when the future looks unclear, but something in you knows that it’s time to break free from...

31 May 2021 I’m not one to look back often, except to celebrate, or to commemorate, or to pick up the pieces of whatever it is I believe...

Easter Monday 2021 My essay for Easter this year focuses more on the words of the late Princess Grace Kelly (The Greatest Mystery) than...

April 2021 Having only recently removed myself, and my life, from bubble-wrap, I am eagerly breaking free of habits and patterns of...

October 2020 In 1936, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, a song called “Smoke Dreams” was featured in the highly enjoyable, highly...

Christmas 2019 One of my all-time favorite tele-visual feasts at Christmastime is Episode #10 of Season 1 of Early Edition. This vintage...