8 March 2026 Yesterday, I took a break from translating into French this section on the Warrior Class in the America of the 1930s and 1940s, as viewed by U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Arthur Boucher Carmichael, recast as Artur Boucher, Free French agent (spy): Artur considered George S. Patton a cut above many other generals. Patton was a soldier who represented a warrior class best known to the ancient Scots; Artur believed that this stalwart American general would serve as an ex

8 October 2024 I Got the Lovesick Blues Music by Cliff Friend, with lyrics by Irving Mills I got a feeling called the blues Oh, Lord,...

Summer 2024 One of the more intriguing and interesting aspects of THE DAWN is the automotive world of the 1930s and 1940s. The...

3 February 2024 During the era of the Wild West in America, the guy who rode in the seat on top of the coach, to the left of the...

November 2023 Sentimental Journey Music by Les Brown and Ben Homer, with lyrics by Bud Green; I’m gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna...

4 June 2022 The Big Bend “Muse-mobile” has journeyed home! A trip to the Bay Area was necessary for us to pick up the 2022 Ford Bronco,...

18 May 2022 Yestermorn, I was shown the photo of my Ford Bronco coming off the assembly line. “The Green Hornet,” I gasped. Now, I’ve not...

18 April 2022 The Summer of 1999 was exactly one year after the Milligans moved to the country fixer-upper in Newcastle from the brand...

25 February 2022 Ice Mountain is the name given to the expansive storage lot adjacent to the Michigan Assembly Plant (MAP) in Wayne. The...

9 December 2021 On Monday, 6 December, Mr. Milligan received — in the mail — the Official Bronco 2022 Calendar. The mailer box states:...

20 November 2021 Last week, Dear Husband pulled, out of a delivered mailing box, a flag. The Bronco flag, to be specific. “Why is it...

3 September 2021 No, I am not talking about my back yard, now that my dirt acreage has been minimally but aesthetically and wonderfully...

10 August 2021 A 2021 Ford Bronco By Any Color Other Than Blue — Is now your 2022 Ford Bronco. The car enthusiasts in America are shaking...

Independence Day 2021 A large part of the rollicking fun of watching Seasons 3-5, the 1962-1965 episodes of the TV Western Bonanza is: ...

Late June 2021 I like to keep up-to-date on the progress of my Bronco, along with Corporate Non-Credibility. Since I’ve decided on a...

Memorial Day 2021 My Muse decided sometime last summer that I need a new vehicle, a Muse-Mobile that will amuse me! In NORTHSTAR, my...

July 2019 Sure, It’s Eggy . . . The automobile and I have a fairly tortured history. And, in all fairness to myself, it wasn’t a one-way street. Each vehicle in question exasperated me just as much as I exhausted every attempt to find common ground, or road, with it. I did not own a car until I was well into my 20’s and had moved to California from the East. I soon, and alarmingly, discovered that Life in the Golden State without a vehicle is impossible. In a State where a