Winter Solstice 2024 By the fall of 1940, forty-eight Jewish orphans had been rescued and conveyed by Guillaume and his compatriots into...

Christmas 2024 You’re All I Want for Christmas by Seger Ellis and Glen T. Moore; French translation by Debra Milligan You’re all I want...

December 2024 From Mrs. Christmas Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Music by Hugh Martin, original lyrics by Ralph Blaine; changes...

8 December 2024 Sometime during the autumn of 2019, I was in the midst of translating a chapter of THE DAWN into L’AUBE.  My method in...

December 2024 Santa Claus is Coming to Town Music by John Frederick Coots, with lyrics by Haven Gillespie You better watch out You better not cry   You better not pout   I’m telling you why:   Santa Claus is coming to town.   He’s making a list   He’s checking it twice   Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice Santa Claus is coming to town.   He sees you when you’re sleeping   He knows when you’re awake   He knows when you’ve been bad   or good   So be good for goodness sake!  

Christmas 2024 And The Angels Sing Music by Ziggy Elman, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer We meet, and the angels sing   The angels sing the...

Winter Solstice 2024 Try to Remember Song composed by Harvey Schmidt, with lyrics by Thomas Collins Jones Try to remember the kind of...

Feast of St. Nicholas 2024 Petit Papa Noël ( Little Father Christmas ) was composed by Henri Martinet, with lyrics by Raymond Vincy. ...

Winter Solstice 2024 I am always contemplative this time of year.  The weather has much to do with my creative mood and the types of...

Thanksgiving 2024 Yes, it has certainly been quite a month for this Constitutional Republic called the United States of America!   The...

November’s End 2024 I’m Losing You/Connais-tu English adaptation lyrics by Carl Sigman of Connais-Tu, musique et paroles par Jean Renard...

Thanksgiving 2024 Kaw-Liga by Hank Williams and Fred Rose Kaw-Liga was a wooden Indian standing by the door He fell in love with an...

Mid-November 2024 When A Man Loves A Woman Written by Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright When a man loves a woman, He can’t keep his mind on...

Mid-November 2024 The Nearness of You Music by Hoagy Carmichael, with lyrics by Ned Washington; French translation by Debra Milligan It’s...

November 2024 When Eating an Entire Pumpkin Loaf is Inappropriate:   There’s the mini-loaf!   I found this recipe (among many others) in...

10 November 2024 Until It’s time for Me to Go by Buffy Sainte-Marie; French translation by Debra Milligan   I’m not a dream, I’m not an...

Veteran’s Day 2024 November of 2000 was a month I’ll never forget.   I’d moved into the Peach House in Newcastle two years earlier; I...

November 2024 You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You Written by Russ Morgan, Larry Stock, James Cavanaugh You’re nobody till somebody loves you   You’re nobody till somebody cares   You may be king You may possess the world and its gold   But gold won’t bring you happiness when you’re growing old   The world still is the same   You’ve never change it   As sure as the stars shine above You’re nobody till somebody loves you   So find yourself somebody to love   The world still i

November 2024 It’s Just a Matter of Time Written by Brook Benton, Clyde Otis, and Belford Hendricks; Changes by Debra Milligan Someday,  ...

3 November 2024 Life in Wartime by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth I heard of a van loaded with weapons   It’s...