November 2023 Black is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair Traditional Scottish Song Black, black, black is the colour of my true love’s...

November 2023 Those two surnames equate to musical artistry of a sort that re-defined American musical theatre. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were untouchable from the very start of their magic-making collaboration of music and lyrics. They remain untouchable. With Richard Rodgers, the composer, and Oscar Hammerstein II, the librettist and lyricist, the world of Broadway reached a pinnacle it’s not likely to see again. I may be wrong, but when a Golden Age of an

November 2023 The Song Is You Music by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II I hear music when I look at you A beautiful theme...

November 2023 Sentimental Journey Music by Les Brown and Ben Homer, with lyrics by Bud Green; I’m gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna...

November 2023 During this past summer, reading through the local real estate listings online became my morning pastime, a form of Monopoly — without the board game. Ideally, four players are needed for optimal dynamics at Monopoly; I presently lack the adequate number of players at this game. Games, in particular, are a dire commodity in the USA. The Boob Tube dismally dissolved into the Woke Wide-Screen, thereby depriving millions and millions of Americans of what used to b

November 2023 Sometimes the learning curve is a cork-screw. I prefer a more direct path, not entirely linear, but one that does away with...

November 2023 Eternally Music Composed by Charlie Chaplin, with lyrics by Geoff Parsons and John Turner I’ll be loving you, eternally...

November 2023 Crazy Written by Willie Nelson Crazy I’m crazy for feeling so lonely I’m crazy Crazy for feeling so blue. I knew You’d love...

Halloween 2023 Charade by Henry Mancini When we played our charade We were like children posing Playing at games, acting out names...

October 2023 Sixteen Tons Written by Merle Travis Some people say a man is made out of mud A poor man’s made out of muscle and blood. Muscle and blood Skin and bones A mind that’s weak and a back that’s strong. You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don’t you call him, ‘cause he can’t go He owes his soul to the company store. He was born one morning when the sun didn’t shine. He picked up his shovel and walked to the mine Lo

Halloween 2023 Sometime during October 1999, I was in the local, and the only, grocery store near my home-town of Newcastle, California...

1 November 2023 Several years ago, four to be precise, I broke my own rule about reading reviews of THE DAWN. I was living in the Rental...

20 October 2023 Bonnie Lynne Milligan, my first beagle, truly was my dog, but she truly was not a beagle, at least not a pure-bred one....

November 2023 This past week, I committed a couple of bold acts. I translated “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” into French. I...

17 October 2023 I recently read a very funny comment online about what, in America, has become the continuing crisis. “Break to...

11 October 2023 This afternoon, I sorted through a box of photographs from my early days as a mom. I’d had no idea how much fun I was...

Columbus Day 2023 Fourscore and seven years ago. . . Actually, it was only three years ago, but it feels like 87 since I first embarked...

15 October 2023 The Lord’s Prayer Music by Albert Hay Malotte; lyrics from The Book of Matthew 6:9-13, King James Version Our Father...

Columbus Day 2023 Goodnight, Sweetheart Written by Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell, and Reg Connelly Goodnight, sweetheart till we meet...

October 2023 As Time Goes By Written and Composed by Herman Hupfeld You must remember this A kiss is just a kiss A sigh is just a sigh The fundamental things apply as time goes by. And when two lovers woo They still say I love you On that you can rely No matter what the future brings As time goes by. Moonlight and love songs never out of date Hearts full of passion jealousy and hate Woman needs man and man must have his mate That no one can deny. It’s still the same old story