Thursday, 17 October 2019 I tried yesterday to start inputting onto my laptop my pen-scrawled French translation of the second half of...

Columbus Day 2019 I heartily enjoy Elizabethan verse, although many people do not. I’d even considered creating a Great Books library...

27 September 2019 This post is not a poem or even a song, but an outpouring of a grateful heart which is, in its highest sense, a poem or...

10 September 2019 On the eve of 9/11, I offer a prayer to the Almighty for all who suffered and who suffer still because of evil and its...

September 2019 I wonder if the touchy-feely alarmists ought to be treated for the heartbreak of psoriasis. They are so thin-skinned and...

21 August 2019 Yesterday, almost accidentally, I found the Bridget Fabrics: layers cakes and charm packs and jelly rolls from The Fat...

May 2019 The X Marks the Spot The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo: Treasure Island (Adapted for Television by Walter Black) A Book Review...

August 2019 Update The decade’s end is approaching, and I see no sign in sight of the advertising geniuses having re-built that span...

August 2019 The Wonderful World Beyond Disney: by Ronald Milligan After the Walt Disney Strike of 1941, things were never the same for...

17 July 2019 Little Joe, the Big Pavelski, the Captain, the guy with the Doritos-Sunkissed-Beard. The names are many, but the most...

Summer 2019 It holds secrets all its own, no matter where the botanic creation thrives. The concept is the same, no matter where the...

5 July 2019 My years in Washington, D.C. were wretched ones, highlighted by a half-a-dozen stellar, stalwart individuals whom I...

July 2019 Sure, It’s Eggy . . . The automobile and I have a fairly tortured history. And, in all fairness to myself, it wasn’t a one-way...

July 2019 Prelude During the autumn of 2018, Debra began to read what is deemed the definitive biography of Walter Elias Disney — Walt...

Summer Reading 2019 Almost a Miracle by John Ferling Published 2007 It is with enormous pleasure that I am reading this book about the...

D-Day 2019 Ah ! Comment Artur me manque ! Oh! How I miss Arthur! In French, missing someone is a matter of putting the onus on the other...

Memorial Day 2019 It was during my research into the voluminous materials that would transform my ideas for a war novel called NOTTINGHAM...

May 2019 I was raised with a ton of etiquette. Manners were the strong suit of my mother. Morals is where she fell down, precipitously...

The April Fools 2019 This phrase is not mine. I found it in a diatribe posing as a book review on the rain-forest selling platform that...

29 March 2019 DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP! It has become nearly impossible for the will of civilized people in the grass-roots of a nation to...