President’s Day 17 February 2025 All day today, I’ve been hearing, in my mind, this first line of lyrics, which is also the title of this...

21 January 2025 Good Mornin’ Music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Arthur Freed; Changes by Debra Milligan Good mornin’   Good mornin’...

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...

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

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...

31 July 2024 This past month has to have been one of the longest in terms of spin cycles for The Media.  And they are not over yet! This...

3 July 2024 I awoke this morning at 7:30, an hour that’s not incredibly early, even for me.  The blast furnace got turned on, yesterday,...

Summer Celebration 2024 All My Exes Live in Texas by Sanger Shafer and Lyndia J. Shafer; changes by Debra Milligan All my exes live in...

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...

Epiphany 2024 Wouldn’t It Be Loverly Composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner All I want is a room somewhere Far away...

21 December 2023 Twas the Week of Christmas By Debra Milligan Twas the week of Christmas and all through the house every creature was...

Pearl Harbor Day 2023 Last night, I had a rather telling dream about so many things. A woman, with a stack of papers in her hand, was...

December 2024 The Christmas Song Written by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose...

November 2023 Sometimes the learning curve is a cork-screw. I prefer a more direct path, not entirely linear, but one that does away with...

6 October 2023 Jolene, the Jumping Queen, is a Wednesday wanderer no more. Even though Dear Husband spends 90 percent of his time...

7 September 2023 The past 24 hours have been a whir of excitement. Jolene came to me, in the arms of Dear Husband who flew to Salt Lake...

Noël 2022 Gifts from This Writer Twas the night before Christmas and I will not deny I was editing scenes of a novel on the sly. I’d been...

Mid-April 2022 This Wednesday, I decided on a quick trip to the local nursery for some spring fling-flower purchases. I also decided to...

12 December 2021 This morning, the storm door officially opened in northern California — in ALL of California. The portal flung open...

End of May 2021 We Don’t Snoop on Our Guests . . . But our guests snoop on us! Just kidding! Last summer, that would be the summer of...