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...

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...

12 September 2025   How Did We Get Here? - The Offensive Weapons Act of 1996 I did some online shopping to Reward Self this afternoon. ...

9 September 2025 The Fashion Scene is a shambolic mess.   At least in America it is.  I cannot speak for the European misses who might be...

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...

1 September 2025 Listen to Your Heart by Per Gessle and Mats Persson I know there’s something in the wake of your smile   I get a notion...

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

21 August 2025 I’ve been told that my style of decorating is eclectic.  Indeed, it is.   If a person cannot have fun sprucing up the...

20 August 2025 Sometimes a person has been so mired in oppression, an overall lack of freedom, for so long, that when she is sprung from...

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...

8 August 2025 Decades ago, I was advised by an older person, a man of professional credentials whom I admired:   “It’s best not to date...

1 August 2025 I’ve been busy this week, reviewing the French translation of Chapter 43 of THE DAWN into L’AUBE.  I’m calling this punchy...

August 2025 Try A Little Tenderness by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, and Harry M. Woods; changes and French translation by Debra Milligan...

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

August 2025 The Juice-Box of Life: Preschool Memories   Not memories of my preschool, because I did not go to preschool.  Entering...