11 September 2023 God Bless America by Irving Berlin God bless America Land that I love Stand beside her and guide her through the night...

9 September 2023 Kissed by the Wind My Jolene is a beauty queen but more than that — She’s kissed by the wind, and that’s a fact. Her...

7 September 2023 The past 24 hours have been a whir of excitement. Jolene came to me, in the arms of Dear Husband who flew to Salt Lake...

Mid-September 2023 More Riz Ortolani/Nino Oliviero More than the greatest love the world has known, This is the love I give to you alone,...

Labor Day Recipe 2023 Sometime during the mid-late 1990s, when I lived in Suburbia, I happened upon a recipe for black bean soup that...

3 September 2023 Jolene Music and lyrics by Dolly Parton Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene I’m begging of you please don’t take my man. Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene Please don’t take him just because you can. Your beauty is beyond compare With flaming locks of auburn hair With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green. Your smile is like a breath of spring Your voice is soft like summer rain and I cannot compete with you Jolene. He talks about you in his sleep And there’s nothing I can d

3 September 2023 I left my comfort zone today, for at least a few hours. I can’t confirm that I actually possess a comfort zone. The...

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:...

Labor Day 2023 The Impossible Dream Composed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics by Joe Danton To dream the impossible dream To fight the...

Music based on the Italian instrumental, “Concerto d’autunno”, by Camillo Bargoni; English lyrics by Al Stillman, Paul Siegel I hear the...

August 2023 Fly Me to the Moon by Bart Howard Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars. Let me see what spring is like on...

Bastille Day 2023 Just a Dog: Beagle Memes As part of my marching toward the future, after the sudden loss of Chance, here on earth, in...

July 2023 Summertime George Gershwin Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Fish are jumpin’ And the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’ So hush little baby Don’t you cry. One of these mornings You’re going to rise up singing Then you’ll spread your wings And you’ll take to the sky. But ’til that morning There’s nothing can harm you With daddy and mommy standing by. One of these mornings You’re going to rise up singing Then you’ll spread your wings A

4 July 2023 Country music, such as it used to be, was once the bastion of poets who happened to write songs for sale. The first of this...

4 July 2023 Native to western South America and Central America, the tomato was discovered in 1519 by Hernán Cortés. That Spanish...

Summer 2023 Ave Maria by Franz Schubert The sublime composition known as Ave Maria by Franz Schubert was originally entitled, in the...

Summer 2023 Summer Cruise 2023 The Beguine Where do I begin with the beguine? Let’s start with the origin of this song: Begin the...

29 May 2023 There are no words, even for a writer, to adequately and accurately address the life of Chance Beaumont. I feel equally inept...

May 2023 Padam, Padam Henri Contet/Norbert Glanzberg Cet air qui m'obsède jour et nuit Cet air n'est pas né d'aujourd`hui Il vient...

Moon River Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer Moon river, wider than a mile I’m crossing you in style some day Oh, dream maker You heart...