May Day 2025 Last month, Dear Husband was tasked with the unenviable task of finding his birth certificate — of discovering if he even...

March 2025 Holding Out for A Hero by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford; Changes by Debra Milligan Where have all the good men gone and...

January’s End 2025 Too Many Rivers by Harlan Howard; French translation by Debra Milligan I wish I could come back to you, dear Cause I...

1 November 2024 Don’t Fence Me In by Cole Porter Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above,   Don't fence me in.   Let me...

October 2024 Anymore By Jill Colucci and Travis Tritt I can’t hide the way I feel about you   anymore.   I cannot hold the hurt inside...

21 August 2024 Years by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan; changes by Debra Milligan Faded photographs   The feelings all come back   Even...

21 July 2024 I watched a vintage Western the other night whose plot revolved around the murder of a banker.  He was shot dead as he...

Mid-July 2024 East Virginia Traditional English folk song from the Southern Appalachians; changes by Debra Milligan He was born in east...

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 rested...

Start of Summer 2024 The Ballad of High Noon Music by Dimitri Tiomkin, with lyrics by Ned Washington; changes by Debra Milligan I won’t...

Summer Solstice 2024 The Wayward Wind Music by Stanley Lebowsky, with lyrics by Herb Newman The wayward wind is a restless wind A...

June 2024 The Streets of Laredo American Cowboy Ballad As I was out walking the streets of Laredo as I walked out in Laredo one day I met...

May 2024 Red River Valley Traditional American Cowboy Love Song From this valley they say you are going, I shall miss your bright eyes...

April 2024 I’m Not Lisa by Jessi Colter I’m not Lisa My name is Julie Lisa left you years ago My eyes are not blue But mine won’t leave...

April 2024 Down in the Valley Kentucky Mountain Song Down in the valley the valley so low Hang your head over Hear the wind blow. Hear...

1 November 2023 One hot afternoon, during this past summer, I was seated upon my comfy couch, and the title “Cruella de Ville of Cowboy...

21 December 2022 Sometime during Thanksgiving, Dear Husband half-jokingly said to me that I’ve got six weeks left in the year to write...

14 September 2021 Last night was The Night of the Coyote. I fell asleep late, past midnight. I’d spent the evening immersed in much...

Summer 2021 Decades ago, I lived in a house on a street called Cattle Drive. The house was located in West Natomas, Sacramento, back when...

9 February 2021 I once knew an ob-gyn who posted two framed documents in his waiting room. In those days, the mid-1990s, the room truly...