August 2025 PAGE ONE   CAPTAIN BLOOD His Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini   Chapter I The Messenger   “PETER BLOOD, bachelor of medicine and...

23 July 2025 Or perhaps it is the revenge of the M-5.   This morning, I did some light pruning of the roses in my raised-bed garden.  The...

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...

15 July 2025 If I Were Your Woman By Pam Sawyer, Clay McMurray and Gloria Jones; Changes by Debra Milligan If I were your woman and you...

13 July 2025 I have attempted over the course of the past year to embark upon the reading of the novel, Captain Blood , by Rafael Sabatini.   The first attempt took place on 12 July 2024.  The first page offered to me the type of thrilling fictional writing that cannot be abandoned, or left easily.  I started to compose an essay, citing that enthralling first-page entry in this adventure novel that was originally published in 1922.  I figured I’d get back to the essay after h

Mid-July 2025 Call Me Irresponsible Music by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Sammy Cahn Call me irresponsible Call me unreliable   Throw...

Bastille Day 2025 In THE DAWN, Odile Marquet Van der Groef is the younger sister of Pascal Marquet, owner of Pascal’s Restaurant in...

3 July 2025 I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself A Letter Music by Fred E. Ahlert with lyrics by Joe Young I’m gonna sit right down...

4 July 2025 Dona Dona Dona by Teddi Schwartz, Sholom Secunda, Arthur S. Kevess, and Aaron Zeitlin On a wagon bound for market There’s a...

End of June 2025 A couple of months ago, I reportedly awoke in my sleep, sometime in the middle of the night, and asked Dear Husband:  ...

22 June 2025 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams Written by Harry Barris with lyrics by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll; Additions by Debra Milligan...

25 June 2025 - Midsummer Song Fool Number One by Kathryn R. Fulton Am I fool number one?   Or am I fool number two?   How many other...

18 June 2025 A few years ago, or maybe five of six, or even a decade — President Trump declared that Prime Minister Boris Johnson could...

Summer Solstice 2025 I Never Dreamed by Steve Wonder; changes and French translation by Debra Milligan I never dreamed I’d leave in...

14 June 2025 There’ll Be Bluebirds Over Music by Walter Kent to lyrics by Nat Burton Chorus:   There will be bluebirds over the white...

June 2025 The Very Thought of You Music and Lyrics by Ray Noble The very thought of you And I forget to do   The little ordinary things...

24 May 2025 If an individual is a libertarian conservative, living in California requires the patience of a saint.  I fail miserably, and...

Memorial Day 2025 All I Ask of You by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe Let’s not talk of sadness Forget our...

20 May 2025 I am very grateful for having had the stabilizing force and grounded routine of home-making when I first created, or...

Mid-May 2025 Ce soir, ils vont s’aimer Musique par Christian Gaubert, paroles par Pierre-André Gousset; Translation by Debra Milligan Ce...