Epiphany 2024 Wouldn’t It Be Loverly Composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner All I want is a room somewhere Far away...

New Year 2024 This afternoon, I was perusing clothes on a selling-platform website and saw a category that I mis-read as: Woke and Duty...

Dead Week 2023 The first in a series of ten articles . . . For me, those words cause an immediate (if that’s fast enough) clicking away...

21 December 2023 Twas the Week of Christmas By Debra Milligan Twas the week of Christmas and all through the house every creature was...

10 December 2023 Cantique de Noël Musique par Adolphe Adam, paroles par Placide Cappeau Minuit, chrétiens, C’est l’heure solennelle Où...

10 December 2023 This morning, I received a message of profound truth and joy in my email box.  I needed to read, and believe anew, these...

Pearl Harbor Day 2023 Last night, I had a rather telling dream about so many things. A woman, with a stack of papers in her hand, was...

December 2023 I’ll Be Home for Christmas Music by Walter Kent with lyrics by Kim Gannon and Buck Ram I’ll be home for Christmas You can...

Winter Solstice 2023 This morning, I made oatmeal for breakfast. I’ve been known to eat oatmeal for dinner, or even an early lunch (or...

December 2023 White Christmas by Irving Berlin I’m dreaming of a white Christmas just like ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten...

December 2024 The Christmas Song Written by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose...

December 2023 I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Written and Composed by Irving Berlin The snow, it is snowing and the wind, it is blowing...

December 2023 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Music by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn Oh, the weather outside is frightful...

December 2023 This Gifts from Wrtiers section continues a tradition that I’d begun on my website when first it commenced in 2013. Many...

29 November 2023 It’s quite a feat, an actual coup — taking the Laptop in for repair-service during Cyber Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/EveryD...

26 November 2023 Let’s Face the Music and Dance by Irving Berlin There may be trouble ahead But while there’s moonlight and music And...

24 November 2023 I may be going out on a limb here, but I venture to say that Black Month has been a bomb for the retailers that keep...

12 November 2023 Side by Side Composed and Written by Harry M. Woods Oh, we ain’t got a barrel of money Maybe we’re ragged and funny But...

All Saints Day 2023 She’s A Dog Original composition and lyrics by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke; Rewritten by Debra Milligan She’s a dog and...

1 November 2023 One hot afternoon, during this past summer, I was seated upon my comfy couch, and the title “Cruella de Ville of Cowboy...