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...

21 December 2023 Twas the Week of Christmas By Debra Milligan Twas the week of Christmas and all through the house every creature was...

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...

December 2024 The Christmas Song Written by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose...

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...

6 October 2023 Jolene, the Jumping Queen, is a Wednesday wanderer no more. Even though Dear Husband spends 90 percent of his time...

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...

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...

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...

12 December 2021 This morning, the storm door officially opened in northern California — in ALL of California. The portal flung open...

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...

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...

23 February 2021 Today was most exciting for this writer. I unpacked the last of the Move-into-the-New-Home boxes. These cardboard...

Halloween 2020 There are times during these tumultuous times when I feel, and re-experience, the horrid days of my life, my very young...

October 2020 I used to associate with swamp creatures, without knowing they were swamp creatures, mostly because the term had not yet...

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...

Summer Souvenirs 2020 The drive-to-go was once described to me during my adolescence as the motivation to achieve, great things, with...

August 2020 Decades ago, I used to drive to Elk Grove, just south of Sacramento, during my pregnancy with Dear Daughter. Nausea was my...

Summer 2020 Welcome to Larkhaven During the course of designing and building The Milligan Dream Home, I decided to give it a name. It...

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...