22 January 2026 Among my New Year’s projects has been the reclaiming of my Mud Room/Laundry Room from Jolene, Jolene Du Pré, to be specific.   This room became the Pup Room when she entered my life (my world) in early September 2023, and she’s immensely enjoyed having full run of the space.  She doesn’t spend as much time in there, now that she has full run of the entire house and the acreage surrounding it.   I therefore thought that I could set up this interior real-estate

22 December 2025 To honor Mr. Balls, I decorated with Big Bells in my Guest Room.   I use bells in all of my decorating!   This American also uses bells to celebrate freedom.  Ringing them bells has been a concerted effort for me during the past decade, during all my life, but I’m persistent.  I possess secret bells within my heart, ones that I protect from the abusers of life, liberty, love and that self-indulgent pursuit of happiness (which may or may not be considered “lov

20 November 2025 This morning, I came upon this passage from my translation review of Chapter 56, from THE DAWN into L’AUBE, presented here in the English:   Artur wondered if Camille truly was a widow, and if her widowhood was that small, tidy box which offered security to Camille but which also imposed restraint upon the brilliance of her illumination.  The small, tidy box compelled confinement, one which she initially might have embraced while sensing that circumscription,

All Saints’ Day 2025 True Love by Cole Porter   I give to you and you give to me   True love, True love   So on and on, It will always be   True love, True love   For you and I have a guardian angel On high With nothing to do   But to give to you and to give to me   Love forever true.   Yes, you and I have a guardian angel On high   With nothing to do   But to give to you and to give to me   Love forever true   Love   Forever true.

1 November 2025 I bought a new dress the other day.  The garment was advertised/labeled as “Wedding Guest Dress”.   I laughed as I pulled the trigger on the online purchase.  The thing is semi-backless.  You tie two fabric sections in the back to create your own level of special and unique decency, or indecency, at the Sacred Event.   Weddings sure aren’t what they used to be.  Then again, neither are marriages!   I recall my own wedding.  One of my much older sisters served

1 October 2025 Up On the Roof by Gerry Goffin and Carole King; Changes by Debra Milligan When this old world starts getting me down   And...

Mid-September 2025 My Melancholy Baby Music by Ernie Burnett, with lyrics by George A. Norton Come, sweetheart mine, Don't you sit and...

21 August 2025 I’ve been told that my style of decorating is eclectic.  Indeed, it is.   If a person cannot have fun sprucing up the...

August 2025 Try A Little Tenderness by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, and Harry M. Woods; changes and French translation by Debra Milligan...

August 2025 The Juice-Box of Life: Preschool Memories   Not memories of my preschool, because I did not go to preschool.  Entering...

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...

14 June 2025 There’ll Be Bluebirds Over Music by Walter Kent to lyrics by Nat Burton Chorus:   There will be bluebirds over the white...

17 April 2025 The Chi-Comm sneaky approach to “underdeveloped nations” (such as China once was) is called “Belt and Road”, but from the...

President’s Day 17 February 2025 All day today, I’ve been hearing, in my mind, this first line of lyrics, which is also the title of this...

21 January 2025 Good Mornin’ Music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Arthur Freed; Changes by Debra Milligan Good mornin’   Good mornin’...

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...

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

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...

31 July 2024 This past month has to have been one of the longest in terms of spin cycles for The Media.  And they are not over yet! This...

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,...