Mid-December 2025 So much trust had been placed by Guillaume de Vallon in this one Frenchwoman — to be who she’d claimed to be.   Anyone can make an error in judgement.  Guillaume de Vallon certainty did, more than once.  Regarding Yvonne Ferrant, however, the mistake was yet another colossal betrayal of his trust.   When the fullness of this mistake was seen in the full light of day, Yvonne was in the dark with her latest paramour among self-destructive revolutionaries.  Thi

7 December 2025 It is always a rousingly inspirational experience for me to encounter Chapter 54 of THE DAWN.  I call it The Roosevelt Chapter.   That sense of exhilaration helped me to rather quickly plow through my translation review of Volume II, Book 5, Pour La Victoire, of THE DAWN into L’AUBE.   During the several previous chapters of Book 5, How the Resistance-World Turns, Arthur Boucher Carmichael has returned to France from his U.S. Army mission-post in London.  The

December 2025 Bye Bye Blackbird Music by Ray Henderson, with lyrics by Mort Dixon French translation by Debra Milligan Blackbird, blackbird   Singing the blues all day   Right outside my door    Blackbird, oh blackbird   I gotta be on my way   To wherever there’s sunshine galore.   Pack up all my cares and woes,   Here I go Singing low   Bye bye, blackbird   Where somebody waits for me   Sugar is sweet and so is he   Bye bye, blackbird   No one here   Can love or understand m

15 October 2025 There are times when I look at the state of the State of California, and I alternate between laughing and not laughing.  I don’t cry because the Golden State is not worth my tears.  This vast domain has always been a loony legislative playground for Marxists Under the Dome.  The rest of us, the hard-working citizens who live outside of the urban zones, and way beyond the coast, we do our best to ignore the parasites, survive them, triumph over them.   The late

2 October 2025   Theatre of the Absurd: Almost Halfway There Chapter 50 There are 110 chapters in THE DAWN .  This morning, I opened up...

Autumnal Equinox 2025 Volume II:  Pour La Victoire Break It to Me Gently Music by Joe Seneca with lyrics by Diana Lampert; changes by...

1 September 2025 Listen to Your Heart by Per Gessle and Mats Persson I know there’s something in the wake of your smile   I get a notion...

End of July 2025 Crying By Roy Orbison and Joe Melson I was all right for a while   I could smile for a while   But I saw you last night...

20 May 2025 I am very grateful for having had the stabilizing force and grounded routine of home-making when I first created, or...

May 2025 Don’t Get Me Wrong by Chrissie Hynde Don’t get me wrong if I’m looking kinda dazzled   I see neon lights whenever you walk by  ...

1 April 2025 All is Fair in Love by Stevie Wonder; changes by Debra Milligan All is fair in love   Love’s a crazy game   Two people vow...

March 2025 It Had to Be You Composed by Isham Jones, lyrics by Gus Kahn It had to be you   It had to be you   I wandered around and...

Mid-February 2025 The character of Pierre Richarde, father of Camille, in THE DAWN/L’AUBE is one of my favorite fictional creations. ...

23 January 2025 This past week, I read another inaccurate headline, online — for where else would anyone in the USA find the disembodied...

Feast of St. Nicholas 2024 Petit Papa Noël ( Little Father Christmas ) was composed by Henri Martinet, with lyrics by Raymond Vincy. ...

Mid-November 2024 The Nearness of You Music by Hoagy Carmichael, with lyrics by Ned Washington; French translation by Debra Milligan It’s...

October 2024 The Sweetest Thing I’ve Ever Known by Otha Young; changes by Debra Milligan When I see you in the morning   That old sleep...

Mid-September 2024 I have safely gotten Arthur out of the England of 1940, or at least I’ve sent him on his way to France in January...

September 2024 Si Tu Partirais   Music and original lyrics by Jacques Brel; original English lyrics by Rod McKuen; French translation of...

August 2024 You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To by Cole Porter You’d be so nice to come home to You’d be so nice by the fire While the...