All Saints’ Day 2025 True Love by Cole Porter I give to you and you give to me True love, True love So on and on, It will always be True love, True love For you and I have a guardian angel On high With nothing to do But to give to you and to give to me Love forever true. Yes, you and I have a guardian angel On high With nothing to do But to give to you and to give to me Love forever true Love Forever true.

Halloween 2025 The Shadow of Your Smile Music by Johnny Mandel, with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster The shadow of your smile, when you are gone Will color all my dreams and light the dawn. Look into my eyes, my love, and see All the lovely things you are to me. Our wistful little star was far too high A teardrop kissed your lips and so did I Now when I remember spring All the joy that love can bring I will be remembering The shadow of your smile. One day we wa

14 October 2025 Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo Music by Bronislaw Kaper, with lyrics by Helen Deutsch; French translation by Debra Milligan A song of love is a sad song Hi-lili, hi-lili, hi-lo A song of love is a song of woe Don’t ask me how I know A song of love is a sad song For I have loved and it’s so I sit at the window and watch the rain Hi-lili, hi-lili, hi-lo Tomorrow, I’ll probably love again Hi-lili, hi-lili, hi-lo On every tree there sits a bird, singing a song of love

12 October 2025 Smile Music by Charlie Chaplin, with lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons Smile, though your heart is aching ...

Columbus Day - 13 October 2025 Chance Homecoming: Christopher Columbus Cookies Our beloved hound, Chance Beaumont Milligan, came home...

October 2025 Are You Lonesome Tonight? by Lou Handman and Roy Turk; Changes by Debra Milligan Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me...

October 2025 I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, George Davis Weiss; Melody based upon « Plaisir...

Autumnal Equinox 2025 Volume II: Pour La Victoire Break It to Me Gently Music by Joe Seneca with lyrics by Diana Lampert; changes by...

21 September 2025 In the Garden by Charles A. Miles (1913) I come to the garden alone While the dew is still on the roses And the voice I...

14 September 2025 During the terrorist attacks on employees in the offices of the weekly magazine, Charlie Hebdo, on 7 January 2015 by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, who left 12 dead in their “Allahu Akbar!” wake; and the subsequent flight north of Paris by those Islamic terrorists, and the hostage-taking and murders of four Jewish hostages in a kosher supermarket, from 7-9 January: The State of France was in a state of siege from within. French President Franç

Mid-September 2025 La vie en rose Par Édith Piaf et Louiguy; des changes par Debra Milligan Des yeux qui font baisser les miens Un rire...

Mid-September 2025 My Melancholy Baby Music by Ernie Burnett, with lyrics by George A. Norton Come, sweetheart mine, Don't you sit and...

6 September 2025 It’s been a long, but fast, couple of years since Jolene du Pré came home to Larkhaven. She’s fully at home now, which...

5 September 2025 Happy Friday! Changing the U.S. Departmental title, Department of War, to Department of Defense — in 1949. The...

September 2025 Innamorata Music composed by Harry Warren, with lyrics by Jack Brooks If our lips should meet, Innamorata Kiss me, kiss...

Labor Day 2025 Chapter 45 - The Gustave Chapter I can still recall the marked-up draft that comprised my written understanding of the...

15 August 2025 The Day the Rains Came Down Music by Gilbert Bécaud, with English lyrics by Carl Sigman The day the rains came down Mother...

Mid-August 2025 It Was Almost Like A Song Music by Archie Jordan, with lyrics by Hal David Once in every life Someone comes along And...

August 2025 When I Fall in Love Music by Victor Young, with lyrics by Edward Heyman; French translation by Debra Milligan When I fall in love it will be forever or I’ll never fall in love. In a restless world like this is Love is ended before it’s begun And too many moonlight kisses Seem to cool In the warmth of the sun When I give my heart It will be completely Or I’ll never give my heart And the moment I can feel that You feel that way too Is when I’ll

End of July 2025 Crying By Roy Orbison and Joe Melson I was all right for a while I could smile for a while But I saw you last night...