Mid-April 2025 Dear Me by Carson Whitsett and Scott Mateer; Changes by Debra Milligan Dear Me,   I’m writing this letter to try and tell...

V-Day 2025 In my essay, L-O-V-E Themes — Modern Dating Lingo , posted in The Art of Letter, and dated Year’s End 2019, I mention this...

Mid-October 2024 The Letter by Wayne Carson; changes by Debra Milligan Give me a ticket for an airplane I don’t have time to take a fast...

19 September 2024 I am not referring to the huge divide between Teamsters rank-and-file and management.  I wish to speak of the always...

11 September 2024 In political terms, I’m an independent, or, more precisely, I am independent.   That label has brought to me no end of...

June 2024 Au bout de l’arc-en-ciel Musique par Jimmy Krondes, paroles originales par Sid Jacobson ; traduction par Debra Milligan Au bout...

Graduation Day 2024 One of my earliest literary works appeared in the GW Forum of an autumn that I’d long wished to forget, but I now...

7 May 2024 It has happened again, according to Dear Husband.  I’ve worn out another keyboard.  Actually, it’s the touchpad that’s gone...

April 2024 Cry by Churchill Kolman If your sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye It’s no secret you’ll feel better if you cry. When waking...

Spring 2024 I strenuously try to avoid uttering, or even thinking, profanity.  I’ve been around sailors, and non-sailors, who could, and...

1 March 2024 I recently had to attempt navigating a multiple-choice gauntlet to get past an online security wall.  I flunked the digital...

Valentine’s Day 2024 L-O-V-E Music by Bert Kaempfert, with lyrics by Milt Gabler L is for the way you look at me O is for the only one I...

February 2024 It’s been almost five years since I wrote the essay, “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” and posted it in Continuing Composition....

20 January 2024 From the autumn of 2008 until the autumn of 2012, I was laser-beam focused on plowing ahead with my life, and with the...

November 2023 Black is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair Traditional Scottish Song Black, black, black is the colour of my true love’s...

12 September 2023 Always Irving Berlin I’ll be loving you, always with a love that’s true always. When the things you’ve planned need a...

19 August 2023 To a writer, the art of the letter means many things: the art of letter-writing; the art of using letters to write; the...

Year's End 2019 Decades ago, I watched the Perry Mason Revival Movie series. Perry Mason returned, but the theme song got a bit mangled...

Summer (2018) of Love I place great stock upon letter-writing. It’s a joy and a means of confiding to a person outside of myself the...