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Dec 21, 2019
Light in the Darkness
21 December 2019 Solstice Saturday Light in the Darkness I am thinking today of a girl whom I knew, or thought I knew, as a child. She...
Sep 10, 2019
The Hessians Have Arrived - The Revolution at Last
10 September 2019 On the eve of 9/11, I offer a prayer to the Almighty for all who suffered and who suffer still because of evil and its...
Jul 17, 2019
The Big Pavelski
17 July 2019 Little Joe, the Big Pavelski, the Captain, the guy with the Doritos-Sunkissed-Beard. The names are many, but the most...
Jul 15, 2019
The Summer Garden
Summer 2019 It holds secrets all its own, no matter where the botanic creation thrives. The concept is the same, no matter where the...
May 1, 2019
Etiquette: The Art of Refinement
May 2019 I was raised with a ton of etiquette. Manners were the strong suit of my mother. Morals is where she fell down, precipitously...
Mar 29, 2019
Don't Give Up The Ship!
29 March 2019 DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP! It has become nearly impossible for the will of civilized people in the grass-roots of a nation to...
Feb 21, 2019
Mitsouko - Return from Battle
February 2019 My literary research leads me in all sorts of directions, to all sorts of places, perhaps for all sorts of reasons....
Nov 22, 2018
A World Apart - American Exceptionalism
Giving Thanks 2018 The United States of America began as the City Upon a Hill that Puritan John Winthrop described in his essay in 1630,...
Sep 25, 2018
Think Beyond
Late September 2018 We live in times that feel instantaneous and yet the tempo of our lives is neither faster nor slower than it was for...
Sep 21, 2018
The Gift of Friendship
Autumn 2018 I begin this autumnal essay with a few divine quotes about the nature of friendship. “Friendship is a plant of slow growth...
Sep 4, 2018
Instrumental Gems
Labor Day 2018 September Songs: Instrumental Gems As a singer, I can not easily avow that there are some songs that sound much better as...
Aug 6, 2018
My Naked Feet
August 2018 My Naked Feet: Where Have All the Good Shoes Gone? I have an Egyptian foot. I did not always know that I possess such a...
Jul 4, 2018
Freedom Rings - The Big Valley!
4 July 2018 The Liberty Bell first rang in America in 1753 in the tower of the State House of Pennsylvania. The bell’s got a crack in it,...
Jun 25, 2018
Truth in Advertising - Labels in America
2018 Summer Sale What is it with the American need to label everything, including people? I perhaps defy categorization but it hasn’t...
Apr 15, 2018
Henriëtte Ronner-Knip - The Cat Lady of Painting
Spring Showers 2018 At first blush, she has the touch of detail that typifies Dutch artists. The immaculately detailed domestic settings;...
Apr 1, 2018
The Choral Groups
April 2018 Recording Artists: The Choral Groups They did not have the swing or the swivel or the hair-sprayed sass of Girl Groups, but...
Apr 1, 2018
Happy Trails and Taking Flight
Easter April 2018 Last year, during autumn 2017, a friend commented to me that moving to a new house would really get my creative juices...
Dec 21, 2017
The New Normal - It’s For Your Own Good
California Winter Solstice 2017 The New Normal has become people saying, “It’s the new normal.” They claim random events are the New...
Dec 15, 2017
Swing Time Lights
Mid-December 2017 Last week, during the end of this month of December, 2017, I awoke with the strains in my head of the duet that Ginger...
Nov 24, 2017
Giving Thanks - The Thin Men
November 2017 There are 6 Thin Men movies, the original The Thin Man and 5 sequels. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced these films from...
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