March into Spring 2024 I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joe South I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden Along with...

1 March 2024 I recently had to attempt navigating a multiple-choice gauntlet to get past an online security wall.  I flunked the digital...

1 March 2024 When Day is Done Music by Robert Katscher with lyrics by B.G. DeSylva When day is done and shadows fall I dream of you When...

Presidents’ Day 2024 Pick Myself Up Music by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Dorothy Fields Nothing’s impossible I have found For when my...

11 February 2024 Yesterday morning, I was busy making minestrone soup.  This morning, I commented to Dear Husband that I think I’ve got...

14 February 2024 My Funny Valentine Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart Behold the way our fine feathered friend His virtue doth parade. Thou...

9 February 2024 Breaking free of anything, or anyone, occurs only with the determination that freedom is the goal.  The breaking action...

Valentine’s Day 2024 L-O-V-E Music by Bert Kaempfert, with lyrics by Milt Gabler L is for the way you look at me O is for the only one I...

3 February 2024 During the era of the Wild West in America, the guy who rode in the seat on top of the coach, to the left of the...

February 2024 They Can’t Take That Away From Me Music by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin The way you wear your hat The way you sip your tea The memory of all that   No, they can’t take that away from me   The way your smile just beams The way you sing off-key The way you haunt my dreams   Oh, no, they can’t take that away from me. We may never never meet again on that bumpy road to love   Still I’ll always always keep   the memory of . . .   The way you hold your

February 2024 When I Dream by Sandy Mason Theoret I could have a mansion that is higher than the trees I could have all the gifts I want...

February 2024 The Great American Broadcast A Celebration of Radio’s Golden Age by Leonard Maltin   An admitted child of the TV...

26 January 2024 This morning, I decided to re-open the Book Review section with a new set of bookends.  I’ve an opening salvo, a...

February 2024 It’s been almost five years since I wrote the essay, “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” and posted it in Continuing Composition....

24 January 2024 Walking After Midnight Music by Alan Block, with lyrics by Don Hecht I go out walking after midnight Out in the...

21 January 2024 Jolene is an adolescent now She likes to run with the big dogs.  She reminds me of me during that growth phase! I have...

February 2024 Once upon a time, almost a lifetime ago, in early February 1977, a very young adult me, barely past adolescence,...

20 January 2024 From the autumn of 2008 until the autumn of 2012, I was laser-beam focused on plowing ahead with my life, and with the...

16 January 2024 Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely night dreaming of a song The melody haunts my...

Epiphany 2024 Beauty and the Beast Music by Alan Menken, with lyrics by Howard Ashman Tale as old as time True as it can be Barely even...