August 2021 I learned a lot about life and business and corruption, and taking flight from the seedier side of life, during the summer...

Christmas in July 2021 During the past week, I was immersed in reading La Nilsson, My Life in Opera. The English language translation...

Independence Day 2021 A large part of the rollicking fun of watching Seasons 3-5, the 1962-1965 episodes of the TV Western Bonanza is: ...

Summer 2021 To Life: L’Chaim The book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament of the Bible is considered one of the Books of Wisdom of...

Late June 2021 I like to keep up-to-date on the progress of my Bronco, along with Corporate Non-Credibility. Since I’ve decided on a...

Summer 2021 Decades ago, I lived in a house on a street called Cattle Drive. The house was located in West Natomas, Sacramento, back when...

Memorial Day 2021 My Muse decided sometime last summer that I need a new vehicle, a Muse-Mobile that will amuse me! In NORTHSTAR, my...

31 May 2021 I’m not one to look back often, except to celebrate, or to commemorate, or to pick up the pieces of whatever it is I believe...

May 2021 This American poet and writer was born in 1888 in Sprague, Washington, just southwest of Spokane. Mary Carolyn Davies emerged from a region that was still wild and perilous within the United States of America. Her life seemed to have followed a similar and, ultimately, tragic path. That likely unplanned objective makes the creation of her poem, “Love”, all the more sublime. In 1880, Fort Spokane was established northwest of this city by the U.S. Army, at the junctio

End of April 2021 During the summer of 2013, I was in the process of recording some songs for this website, specifically ones that had been mentioned in THE DAWN. One piece that I attempted to sing well enough for professional purposes was “There’ll Be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover”, as sung in 1942 by Vera Lynn, the Forces’ Sweetheart. The voice of the late Vera Lynn, with its lilting and steadily flowing vibrato, seems to have been tailor-made for this enormously

Easter Monday 2021 My essay for Easter this year focuses more on the words of the late Princess Grace Kelly (The Greatest Mystery) than...

Easter 2021 During this past autumn, October 2020, I experienced online a televised Easter special that had been produced in 1981 by...

April 2021 Having only recently removed myself, and my life, from bubble-wrap, I am eagerly breaking free of habits and patterns of...

April 2021 About eleven years ago, I took part in a beauty product review website. At that time, that site was cleverly mining customer...

Thoughts for St. Patrick’s Day 2021 In America, musical theatre historically and traditionally has consisted of a musical play — a theatrical form of music, and a musical form of theatre — that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The storyline and the emotional targets — humor, pathos, love, suspense, fear, and rage — of a musical play are expressed through words, music, movement, and the technical aspects of entertainment. All are placed within the setting of

24 January 2021 As of 4:20 pm this day, The Draft Translation of THE DAWN into L’AUBE is completed. It has been a bumpy road for me, but...

End of 2020 I’ve been “on the road” during the past few years, not running, but living in the midst of uncertainties and the mini-storage...

Christmas Eve 2020 The following paragraphs are taken directly from the 1949 edition of The Little Golden Books, published by Golden Press of New York: The Author and the Artist This Christmas favorite was written in 1922 by Clement C. Moore for his own children. He later published it as A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS. Dr. Moore taught Biblical history in New York City. In the neighborhood where the poem was written an annual Christmas party is given. At this party , some well-k

7 December 2020 I am presently progressing, or plowing, through the translation of the first chapter of the Final Book, Book 7, of THE...

4 December 2020 The Day of Deliverance, arrives, at last, enfin en France, first in Provence, and, then, within a mere matter of days, in...