30 April 2024 Jovials:  Checkmate — The Checkerboard Crumbles On this date, this not-so-sudden development is ominous.  This reality is...

April 2024 The KZAP Cat When Did This Happen? I try not to be Out of It.  But since I’m never really In It, the effort is what the French...

April 2024 My Buddy Music composed by Walter Donaldson, with lyrics by Gus Kahn Life is a book that we study Some of its leaves bring a...

Spring Reading 2024 I begin this book review of the French version of a 1959 novel by Australian author Morris West (26 April 1916 - 9...

April 2024 I’ve not ever watched late-night talk shows, regardless of who hosted the gab-glitz-and-gossip fest.  Unless My Muse is keeping me awake past midnight, I aim to be sound asleep between 10 and 11 p.m.  New Year’s Eve for me tends to be a pre-midnight vigil over the turning of the clock and the calendar.   I have watched clips of the Johnny Carson Show, and rarely found myself in awe of the man or his guests.  Dean Martin was always a handsome hunk of a hoot there, o

April 2024 Cold, Cold Heart By Hank Williams I’ve tried so hard, my dear to show that you’re my every dream   Yet you’re afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme   A memory from your lonesome past   Keeps us so far apart Why can’t I free your doubtful mind   And melt your cold, cold heart?   Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue   And so my heart is paying now   For things I didn’t do.   In anger, unkind words are said   That make the teardrops start

5 April 2024 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Music by Jay Gorney, Original lyrics by Yip Harburg They used to tell me I was building a...

April 2024 I’m Not Lisa by Jessi Colter I’m not Lisa My name is Julie Lisa left you years ago My eyes are not blue But mine won’t leave...

Spring 2024 I like to get all my ducks lined up in a row whenever I approach a project, creative or otherwise.  During the past few...

April 2024 Cry by Churchill Kolman If your sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye It’s no secret you’ll feel better if you cry. When waking...

April 2024 Down in the Valley Kentucky Mountain Song Down in the valley the valley so low Hang your head over Hear the wind blow. Hear...

1 April 2024 Fools Rush In Music by Rube Bloom, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer Fools rush in where angels fear to tread And so I come to...

Maundy Thursday 2024 This past week, I oversaw the building of a low rock wall in the front of my abode, Larkhaven. I’d requested of Marc...

25 March 2024 It has been a life-long habit for me, truly a way of living, to ignore The News.  This stance has been problematic, at...

Spring 2024 I strenuously try to avoid uttering, or even thinking, profanity.  I’ve been around sailors, and non-sailors, who could, and...

24 March 2024 My Jolene is but eight months old as I write these words.  She’s little, but she does not see herself as under-sized in any...

Vernal Equinox 2024 At Last Music by Harry Warren, with lyrics by Mack Gordon At last my love has come along My lonely nights are over...

St Patrick’s Day 2024 The Isle of Innisfree Music and Lyrics by Dick Farrelly I’ve met some folks who say I am a dreamer And I’ve no...

St. Patrick’s Day 2024 The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin...

4 March 2024 I awoke this morning rather early, at least for me, at 5:45.  The name of a man with whom I’d worked decades ago appeared in...