25 January 2025 “You are trying to find a happy ending where there cannot be one.”   I heard those words in my mind this morning.  I...

Late October 2024 Love’s Old Sweet Song Music by James Lynam Molloy with lyrics by Graham Clifton Bingham Just a song at twilight When...

August 2024 Deep Purple Composed by Peter DeRose, with lyrics later added by Mitchell Parish When the deep purple falls over sleepy...

Mid-July 2024 Dire que je l’aime (Just Say I Love Him) Original music by Rodolfo Falvo, with original lyrics by Enzo Fusco; American...

June 2024 A Man in Love by Frank Loesser; French translation by Debra Milligan Your eyes are the eyes of a man who’s in love And, oh, how...

25 March 2024 It has been a life-long habit for me, truly a way of living, to ignore The News.  This stance has been problematic, at...

24 January 2024 Walking After Midnight Music by Alan Block, with lyrics by Don Hecht I go out walking after midnight Out in the...

December 2023 I’ll Be Home for Christmas Music by Walter Kent with lyrics by Kim Gannon and Buck Ram I’ll be home for Christmas You can...

26 November 2023 Let’s Face the Music and Dance by Irving Berlin There may be trouble ahead But while there’s moonlight and music And...

November 2023 The Song Is You Music by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II I hear music when I look at you A beautiful theme...

17 October 2023 I recently read a very funny comment online about what, in America, has become the continuing crisis. “Break to...

October 2023 Moondance Music and lyrics by Van Morrison; revisions by Debra Milligan It’s a marvelous night for a moondance with the...

Mid-September 2023 Un Monde Avec Toi Paroles: Charles Aznavour/Musique: Bert Kaempfert, Herbert Rehbein, Carl Sigman Jour après jour...

March 2023 The days of our lives to remember are every day, not merely during officially sanctioned holidays and the fêtes declared...

Labor Day 2022 The Kitchen Aid washing machine in my Dream House is not working — as of last night. I was not the discoverer of the...

April 2021 About eleven years ago, I took part in a beauty product review website. At that time, that site was cleverly mining customer...

Summer 2020 Reading information that has not even a remote link to my work is often how I discover aspects of writing that take me to...

Memorial Day 2020 For protests, that is. Memorial Day this year can receive no higher honor, no greater tribute, no deeper dignity than...