19 August 2023 To a writer, the art of the letter means many things: the art of letter-writing; the art of using letters to write; the...

Labor Day 2023 The Impossible Dream Composed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics by Joe Danton To dream the impossible dream To fight the...

Music based on the Italian instrumental, “Concerto d’autunno”, by Camillo Bargoni; English lyrics by Al Stillman, Paul Siegel I hear the...

August 2023 Fly Me to the Moon by Bart Howard Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars. Let me see what spring is like on...

Mid-July 2023 Into every household, some out-of-date film DVDs must fall. In my household, many of those DVDs are quite old, going all...

Bastille Day 2023 Just a Dog: Beagle Memes As part of my marching toward the future, after the sudden loss of Chance, here on earth, in...

July 2023 Summertime George Gershwin Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Fish are jumpin’ And the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy’s rich...

4 July 2023 Country music, such as it used to be, was once the bastion of poets who happened to write songs for sale. The first of this...

4 July 2023 Native to western South America and Central America, the tomato was discovered in 1519 by Hernán Cortés. That Spanish...

Summer 2023 Ave Maria by Franz Schubert The sublime composition known as Ave Maria by Franz Schubert was originally entitled, in the...

Summer 2023 Summer Cruise 2023 The Beguine Where do I begin with the beguine? Let’s start with the origin of this song: Begin the...

14 June 2023 I’ve begun reading Doctor Zhivago (my first edition). I was halfway through reading this book during the autumn of 2016,...

29 May 2023 There are no words, even for a writer, to adequately and accurately address the life of Chance Beaumont. I feel equally inept...

May 2023 Padam, Padam Henri Contet/Norbert Glanzberg Cet air qui m'obsède jour et nuit Cet air n'est pas né d'aujourd`hui Il vient...

Moon River Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer Moon river, wider than a mile I’m crossing you in style some day Oh, dream maker You heart...

11 April 2023 It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been almost ten years since I was told by a Frenchwoman that I could be President of...

Easter 2023 I Believe (Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl, Al Stillman) I believe for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows. I...

Good Friday 2023 A penstock at a hydroelectric dam, such as Pine Flat on the Kings River in Fresno County, California, is a massive...

Spring 2023 There are days, of late, when I dearly miss the days of my technical writing. Not the tech-writing per se, but the assembling...

15 March 2023 One quintessential quality of the American is that the soldier, as well as the patriot, does not accept a command, order,...