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...

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...

15 March 2021 Beware the Ides of March. I quote the Bard, from his play, Julius Caesar. The Roman emperor has been warned by the...

23 February 2021 Today was most exciting for this writer. I unpacked the last of the Move-into-the-New-Home boxes. These cardboard...

9 February 2021 I once knew an ob-gyn who posted two framed documents in his waiting room. In those days, the mid-1990s, the room truly...

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...

Mid-January 2021 Always a Thief: Corporate Slave Trade Ralph Lauren, Fenton, Country Curtains, LL Bean, Nordstrom: The Family Business...

New Year's Day 2021 “I’m getting myself a husband, Sadie. I suggest you get one too — one that doesn’t belong to someone else.” I didn’t...

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...

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...

December 2020 Recently, I received promotional materials from The Colonel, Colonel Littleton in Tennessee. I was stunned at the savvy quality of the marketing of superb merchandise. The Colonel has found a new recruit! One of the more tempting items for sale is Col. Littleton Cologne. I immediately yielded to temptation — once I’d read the reviews. I decided that this subtle scent of citrus and manly spices just might replace the Old Spice cologne that I’d loved, since child

November’s End 2020 Last evening, I was engaged in multi-tasking amidst my translation of Chapter 91 of THE DAWN into L’AUBE. I’m coming...

Late November 2020 There is something to be said for packing up most of your Stuff, putting it into Storage for three years, and then...

Sunday 15 November 2020 It’s a way of life now in the USA — delayed gratification! I am trying to make it work to my advantage. Last...