28 January 2026 This morning, I put out the Spring Florals in my house, Larkhaven. Dear Hubby came home from his post-sunrise constitutional with Jolene, and I informed him of my clean-sweep through the first floor of the house, complete with wet-rag and drying towel. “I hope you didn’t dust too much,” he avowed. “Oh, no. I’m leaving the heavy stuff for you.” Especially since you’ve found and purchased all kinds of gizmos to more efficiently perform the tasks that I’d

Christmas Eve 2025 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer by Johnny Marks; Changes by Debra Milligan You’ve heard all about Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. But do you recall The Most Famous Reindeer OF ALL . . . Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, He had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it, You would even say it glows. All of the other reindeer They used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Rudy Join in

5 September 2025 Happy Friday! Changing the U.S. Departmental title, Department of War, to Department of Defense — in 1949. The...

5 May 2025 I read the book, Big Red , by Jim Kjelgaard. during my grammar school days, sometime around the 3rd grade. I don’t recall...

January 2025 Right or Wrong Composed by Arthur Sizemore and Paul Biese, with lyrics by Haven Gillespie Just One of Those Things by Cole...

Mid-September 2024 We Love Each Other By Buddy Killen They ask me how we do it and I tell them We love each other. There’s really...

February 2024 When I Dream by Sandy Mason Theoret I could have a mansion that is higher than the trees I could have all the gifts I want and never ask please I could fly to Paris, oh, it’s at my beck and call Why do I go through life with nothing at all? But when I dream, I dream of you Maybe someday you will come true. I can be the singer or the clown in every room I can even call someone to take me to the moon I can put my makeup on and drive the men insane I can

Halloween 2023 Charade by Henry Mancini When we played our charade We were like children posing Playing at games, acting out names...

Autumnal Equinox 2023 Sway Written as ¿Quién será? by Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltran Ruiz; English lyrics by Norman Gimbel; revisions by...

September 2023 “You didn’t know me before you met me.” I made that comment to Dear Husband this afternoon, and he said, “It’s a good one:...

Good Friday 2023 A penstock at a hydroelectric dam, such as Pine Flat on the Kings River in Fresno County, California, is a massive...

Summer 2022 Here’s some music destined to make you smile! I vividly recall this song being played during my childhood at the boardwalk in...

Summer’s End 2021 About ten years ago, during the hot dry summer month of August, I was seated in a waiting room for a dental appointment...

August 2021 I learned a lot about life and business and corruption, and taking flight from the seedier side of life, during the summer...

Christmas in July 2021 During the past week, I was immersed in reading La Nilsson, My Life in Opera. The English language translation...

Autumn 2020 Last night I started to translate the beginning of Book 6, La Résistance, Chapter 81 of THE DAWN. It had been a busy day,...

2 July 2020 Yesterday, I was working on my laptop, quite happily I might add, working on the translation of Chapter 74 of THE DAWN into...

February 2020 I did not watch Columbo, or any of the NBC Mystery Movies when they were initially on the telly in the 1970s, or, more...

October 2019 Growing up in New Jersey, I departed at a young age from that state with the conclusion that corruption between politicians...

5 July 2019 My years in Washington, D.C. were wretched ones, highlighted by a half-a-dozen stellar, stalwart individuals whom I...