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...

31 July 2022 THE SILENT HEART — in draft form — has been around for a long time in my life, in my paper files, in my computer files....

22 July 2022 Alexander Hamilton is my favorite Founding Father. He founded the city of my birth, Paterson, New Jersey, and he was an ardent defender of liberty and love, usually in that order. As an aide-de-camp to General George Washington during the Revolutionary War, he served with honor and distinction, starting at the tender age of twenty-two. He was brilliant, impetuous, insightful, a real rebel at heart. He was born of humble origins on the island of Nevis on 11 Januar

Independence Day 2022 Swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home, I say swing low, sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home. ...

June 2022 The Last Waltz The Normand Hound It’s always easy for me to see, in retrospect, how a novel of mine comes to be. I’ve a fixed...

4 June 2022 The Big Bend “Muse-mobile” has journeyed home! A trip to the Bay Area was necessary for us to pick up the 2022 Ford Bronco,...

18 May 2022 Yestermorn, I was shown the photo of my Ford Bronco coming off the assembly line. “The Green Hornet,” I gasped. Now, I’ve not...

2 May 2022 My Northern French novel is the fictional story that emerged within my writing of THE DAWN. I had to extract it from the...

18 April 2022 The Summer of 1999 was exactly one year after the Milligans moved to the country fixer-upper in Newcastle from the brand...

Mid-April 2022 This Wednesday, I decided on a quick trip to the local nursery for some spring fling-flower purchases. I also decided to...

5 April 2022 Today, I showed up at the lunch table of my domicile wearing this outfit that Dear Husband immediately dubbed: Feeling Zen....

31 March 2022 The Best Things in Life Are Free George Gard “Buddy” DeSylva / Lew Brown / Ray Henderson The moon belongs to everyone The...

28 March 2022 Grocery shopping is, of course, and, of late, a shock to the systems: financial, emotional, moral, and culinary. Today, I...

Spring 2022 On Sunday, 9 January 2022, I made an entry in my personal journal: Started the Draft of SHADOW this afternoon. Tossed out the...

St. Patrick’s Day 2022 Danny Boy by Fred E. Weatherly Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the...

Ides of March 2022 The operative words for any half-baked answer to the flying flambé question about what the heck is going on — anywhere...

March 2022 Poor Wayfaring Stranger A Religious Ballad, sung by one person " The Wayfaring Stranger " (also known as " Poor Wayfaring...

25 February 2022 Gabrielle is such a brave cat that I once wrote an essay to detail her exploits against an annoying and intrusive...

25 February 2022 Ice Mountain is the name given to the expansive storage lot adjacent to the Michigan Assembly Plant (MAP) in Wayne. The...

February 2022 The Rose by Amanda McBroom Some say love, it is a river That drowns the tender reed Some say love, it is a razor That...