In the Wash
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...
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Jul 3
FREEDOM
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,...
Jun 19
All My Exes Live in Texas
Summer Celebration 2024 All My Exes Live in Texas by Sanger Shafer and Lyndia J. Shafer; changes by Debra Milligan All my exes live in...
Mar 27
The Wall
Maundy Thursday 2024 This past week, I oversaw the building of a low rock wall in the front of my abode, Larkhaven. I’d requested of Marc...
Jan 2
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly
Epiphany 2024 Wouldn’t It Be Loverly Composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner All I want is a room somewhere Far away...
Dec 10, 2023
Twas the Week of Christmas
21 December 2023 Twas the Week of Christmas By Debra Milligan Twas the week of Christmas and all through the house every creature was...
Dec 7, 2023
The Bottom Line
Pearl Harbor Day 2023 Last night, I had a rather telling dream about so many things. A woman, with a stack of papers in her hand, was...
Dec 5, 2023
The Christmas Song
December 2024 The Christmas Song Written by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose...
Oct 26, 2023
Learning Curve
November 2023 Sometimes the learning curve is a cork-screw. I prefer a more direct path, not entirely linear, but one that does away with...
Oct 4, 2023
A Wednesday Wanderer No More
6 October 2023 Jolene, the Jumping Queen, is a Wednesday wanderer no more. Even though Dear Husband spends 90 percent of his time...
Sep 7, 2023
Home At Last
7 September 2023 The past 24 hours have been a whir of excitement. Jolene came to me, in the arms of Dear Husband who flew to Salt Lake...
Dec 24, 2022
Noël 2022 - Gifts from This Writer
Noël 2022 Gifts from This Writer Twas the night before Christmas and I will not deny I was editing scenes of a novel on the sly. I’d been...
Apr 15, 2022
Flower of the Hour
Mid-April 2022 This Wednesday, I decided on a quick trip to the local nursery for some spring fling-flower purchases. I also decided to...
Dec 12, 2021
Weather or Not
12 December 2021 This morning, the storm door officially opened in northern California — in ALL of California. The portal flung open...
May 31, 2021
We Don’t Snoop on Our Guests
End of May 2021 We Don’t Snoop on Our Guests . . . But our guests snoop on us! Just kidding! Last summer, that would be the summer of...
Mar 15, 2021
Friday Fun: The Ides of March 2021
15 March 2021 Beware the Ides of March. I quote the Bard, from his play, Julius Caesar. The Roman emperor has been warned by the...
Feb 23, 2021
Superior Threads
23 February 2021 Today was most exciting for this writer. I unpacked the last of the Move-into-the-New-Home boxes. These cardboard...
Oct 31, 2020
Wildfire
Halloween 2020 There are times during these tumultuous times when I feel, and re-experience, the horrid days of my life, my very young...
Oct 12, 2020
Swamp Creatures
October 2020 I used to associate with swamp creatures, without knowing they were swamp creatures, mostly because the term had not yet...
Sep 1, 2020
King Lear - The Lost Scene
September 2020 King Lear: The Lost Story of The Lost Scene During my first semester back-at-school, that would be Sac State of the...
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