Spring 2022 On Sunday, 9 January 2022, I made an entry in my personal journal: Started the Draft of SHADOW this afternoon. Tossed out the...

Spring 2022 Because my writing work is so intimately involved with my love of beautiful textiles, and my work with sewing (particularly...

St. Patrick’s Day 2022 Danny Boy by Fred E. Weatherly Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the...

Ides of March 2022 The operative words for any half-baked answer to the flying flambé question about what the heck is going on — anywhere...

March 2022 Poor Wayfaring Stranger A Religious Ballad, sung by one person " The Wayfaring Stranger " (also known as " Poor Wayfaring...

25 February 2022 Gabrielle is such a brave cat that I once wrote an essay to detail her exploits against an annoying and intrusive...

25 February 2022 Ice Mountain is the name given to the expansive storage lot adjacent to the Michigan Assembly Plant (MAP) in Wayne. The...

February 2022 The Rose by Amanda McBroom Some say love, it is a river That drowns the tender reed Some say love, it is a razor That...

25 January 2022 This second child of Queen Victoria, the last monarch of the House of Hanover, and of her consort and first cousin,...

13 January 2022 I am up to my ears in writing fiction this week. My first Western novel SHADOW is casting quite a big penumbra in my life...

January 2022 Welcome to the most vocal portion of my website, which includes a few previously recorded performances from the Dramatic...

12 December 2021 This morning, the storm door officially opened in northern California — in ALL of California. The portal flung open...

9 December 2021 On Monday, 6 December, Mr. Milligan received — in the mail — the Official Bronco 2022 Calendar. The mailer box states:...

Thanksgiving 2021 The Story of Chicken Little California Citizen Warnings: No Free-Range Chickens Were Harmed in the Reading of This...

20 November 2021 Last week, Dear Husband pulled, out of a delivered mailing box, a flag. The Bronco flag, to be specific. “Why is it...

Late Autumn 2021 Les Feuilles d’automne: Autumn Leaves Les Feuilles d'automne is a collection of poems by Victor Hugo that was published...

11 November 2021 Late one afternoon during this past week, I spent a few hours searching for a poem that I’d used for inspiration whilst...

11 November 2021 The Gettysburg Address President Abraham Lincoln There are five known copies of this immortal and eloquent speech. It...

2 November 2021 At long last I have begun to read the phenomenal novel, The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Last November,...

14 October 2021 I have been on record about my thoughts on buying a vehicle with a paint color named “Area 51.” Under no circumstance can...