April 2024 I’ve not ever watched late-night talk shows, regardless of who hosted the gab-glitz-and-gossip fest. Unless My Muse is keeping me awake past midnight, I aim to be sound asleep between 10 and 11 p.m. New Year’s Eve for me tends to be a pre-midnight vigil over the turning of the clock and the calendar. I have watched clips of the Johnny Carson Show, and rarely found myself in awe of the man or his guests. Dean Martin was always a handsome hunk of a hoot there, o

April 2024 Cold, Cold Heart By Hank Williams I’ve tried so hard, my dear to show that you’re my every dream Yet you’re afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme A memory from your lonesome past Keeps us so far apart Why can’t I free your doubtful mind And melt your cold, cold heart? Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue And so my heart is paying now For things I didn’t do. In anger, unkind words are said That make the teardrops start

5 April 2024 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Music by Jay Gorney, Original lyrics by Yip Harburg They used to tell me I was building a...

April 2024 Down in the Valley Kentucky Mountain Song Down in the valley the valley so low Hang your head over Hear the wind blow. Hear...

1 April 2024 Fools Rush In Music by Rube Bloom, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer Fools rush in where angels fear to tread And so I come to...

Maundy Thursday 2024 This past week, I oversaw the building of a low rock wall in the front of my abode, Larkhaven. I’d requested of Marc...

24 March 2024 My Jolene is but eight months old as I write these words. She’s little, but she does not see herself as under-sized in any...

Vernal Equinox 2024 At Last Music by Harry Warren, with lyrics by Mack Gordon At last my love has come along My lonely nights are over...

St Patrick’s Day 2024 The Isle of Innisfree Music and Lyrics by Dick Farrelly I’ve met some folks who say I am a dreamer And I’ve no...

St. Patrick’s Day 2024 The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin...

March into Spring 2024 I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joe South I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden Along with...

1 March 2024 When Day is Done Music by Robert Katscher with lyrics by B.G. DeSylva When day is done and shadows fall I dream of you When...

Presidents’ Day 2024 Pick Myself Up Music by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Dorothy Fields Nothing’s impossible I have found For when my...

11 February 2024 Yesterday morning, I was busy making minestrone soup. This morning, I commented to Dear Husband that I think I’ve got...

14 February 2024 My Funny Valentine Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart Behold the way our fine feathered friend His virtue doth parade. Thou...

9 February 2024 Breaking free of anything, or anyone, occurs only with the determination that freedom is the goal. The breaking action...

3 February 2024 During the era of the Wild West in America, the guy who rode in the seat on top of the coach, to the left of the...

February 2024 They Can’t Take That Away From Me Music by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin The way you wear your hat The way you sip your tea The memory of all that No, they can’t take that away from me The way your smile just beams The way you sing off-key The way you haunt my dreams Oh, no, they can’t take that away from me. We may never never meet again on that bumpy road to love Still I’ll always always keep the memory of . . . The way you hold your

February 2024 When I Dream by Sandy Mason Theoret I could have a mansion that is higher than the trees I could have all the gifts I want and never ask please I could fly to Paris, oh, it’s at my beck and call Why do I go through life with nothing at all? But when I dream, I dream of you Maybe someday you will come true. I can be the singer or the clown in every room I can even call someone to take me to the moon I can put my makeup on and drive the men insane I can

24 January 2024 Walking After Midnight Music by Alan Block, with lyrics by Don Hecht I go out walking after midnight Out in the...