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

10 December 2025 Decades ago, when I was witnessing illegal, unhealthy, sick and menacing-toward-violent behavior on the parts of certain In-Laws, I made it very clear to them that I wasn’t putting up with any of it.  I didn’t do so within my Family of Origin,  and this band of neurotics wasn’t going to get cut any slack, at least not by me.   I seemed to have been the only one voicing offense and outcry.  Besides, (or maybe because) I was pregnant with Dear Daughter at the t

30 November 2025 I awoke this morning, refreshed and recharged after a day of exhausting work, mentally, emotionally and physically.   Ah!  The wonders of a long winter’s nap, even when I’m not actually in pittoresque New England, and it’s not officially Winter!   Officially Anything has become a joke.  It’s been a joke for a long time, but no one was allowed to laugh:  The Prudes-In-Charge banned laughter.   It’s time for a little levity, in the midst of our woes.  And the w

24 October 2025 Walk Away, René by Michael Brown, Bob Calilli, and Tony Sansone; Changes and French translation by Debra Milligan And when I see the sign that points one way   The lot we used to pass by every day.   Just walk away, René   You won’t see me follow you back home.   The empty sidewalks on my block, they are not the same   You’re not to blame.   From deep inside, the tears I’m forced to cry From deep inside, the pain that I chose to hide.   Just walk away, René  

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...

Mid-April 2025 The hackneyed expression is “truth or consequences” — but my life has always been a matter of telling the truth and...

St. Patrick’s Day 2025 Recently, I watched a video of a podcast interview of Howard Lutnick, the 41st Secretary of Commerce of the United...

Valentine’s Day 2025 The key to romantic success, the one that unlocked the door to true love for me — came quite by surprise, perhaps by...

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

Winter Solstice 2024 I am always contemplative this time of year.  The weather has much to do with my creative mood and the types of...

Thanksgiving 2024 Kaw-Liga by Hank Williams and Fred Rose Kaw-Liga was a wooden Indian standing by the door He fell in love with an...

24 October 2024 Share Your Love by Alfred Braggs and Deadric Malone; changes by Debra Milligan It’s an evil wind that blows no good   And...

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...

26 August 2024 I’ve always been very sensitive to emotional rip-off acts, especially by mean old ladies posing as saccharine-sweet,...

15 August 2024 I Feel A Song in My Heart by Tony Camillo and Mary Sawyer; changes by Debra Milligan You, I loved you so But why I loved...

26 July 2024 My nineteenth summer was spent, much like the next three summers would be, living and working in Washington, D.C..  The...

16 July 2024 During mid-afternoon on Saturday, 13 July, I joined my husband in tracking down our one-year-old beagle hound, Jolene. ...

12 July 2024 In my resolutely unplugged state, I stay very far afield of the field of inept and incompetent journalists in America, and...

Flag Day 2024 It’s a topic, the unending battle on the human battlefield, with which any good novelist must deal.  On a personal level,...