We Love Each Other
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...
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Aug 26
Trauma Compounds
26 August 2024 I’ve always been very sensitive to emotional rip-off acts, especially by mean old ladies posing as saccharine-sweet,...
Aug 15
I Feel A Song in My Heart
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...
Jul 26
That Summer, This Summer
26 July 2024 My nineteenth summer was spent, much like the next three summers would be, living and working in Washington, D.C.. The...
Jul 16
Day of the Coyote
16 July 2024 During mid-afternoon on Saturday, 13 July, I joined my husband in tracking down our one-year-old beagle hound, Jolene. ...
Jul 12
Asymmetrical Journalism
12 July 2024 In my resolutely unplugged state, I stay very far afield of the field of inept and incompetent journalists in America, and...
Jun 11
Good vs. Evil
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,...
Jun 1
The Port of Homecoming
June 2024 It wasn’t until I wrote the essay, Education in America, in January 2017 that I took a critical look at the social structure of...
Jan 20
Kenny Rogers - Future Tales
February 2024 Once upon a time, almost a lifetime ago, in early February 1977, a very young adult me, barely past adolescence,...
Oct 23, 2023
Charade
Halloween 2023 Charade by Henry Mancini When we played our charade We were like children posing Playing at games, acting out names...
Sep 23, 2023
Sway
Autumnal Equinox 2023 Sway Written as ¿Quién será? by Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltran Ruiz; English lyrics by Norman Gimbel; revisions by...
Sep 1, 2023
Past Lives
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:...
Apr 7, 2023
The Penstocks of Life
Good Friday 2023 A penstock at a hydroelectric dam, such as Pine Flat on the Kings River in Fresno County, California, is a massive...
Aug 1, 2022
Wooly Bully
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...
Jul 2, 2022
Freedom Unmasked
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...
Sep 20, 2021
Reaching . . .
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...
Aug 1, 2021
The Golden Steer
August 2021 I learned a lot about life and business and corruption, and taking flight from the seedier side of life, during the summer...
Jul 25, 2021
Jussi Björling
Christmas in July 2021 During the past week, I was immersed in reading La Nilsson, My Life in Opera. The English language translation...
Oct 4, 2020
The Shut Your Mouth Event
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,...
Oct 19, 2019
Grid Blackouts - Imagine It’s All Connected
October 2019 Growing up in New Jersey, I departed at a young age from that state with the conclusion that corruption between politicians...
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