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Oct 26
Love's Old Sweet Song
Late October 2024 Love’s Old Sweet Song Music by James Lynam Molloy with lyrics by Graham Clifton Bingham Just a song at twilight When...
Aug 1
Deep Purple
August 2024 Deep Purple Composed by Peter DeRose, with lyrics later added by Mitchell Parish When the deep purple falls over sleepy...
Jul 10
Dire que je l’aime (Just Say I Love Him)
Mid-July 2024 Dire que je l’aime (Just Say I Love Him) Original music by Rodolfo Falvo, with original lyrics by Enzo Fusco; American...
Jun 13
A Man in Love
June 2024 A Man in Love by Frank Loesser; French translation by Debra Milligan Your eyes are the eyes of a man who’s in love And, oh, how...
Mar 25
Ode to an Era
25 March 2024 It has been a life-long habit for me, truly a way of living, to ignore The News. This stance has been problematic, at...
Jan 24
Walking After Midnight
24 January 2024 Walking After Midnight Music by Alan Block, with lyrics by Don Hecht I go out walking after midnight Out in the...
Dec 6, 2023
I'll Be Home for Christmas
December 2023 I’ll Be Home for Christmas Music by Walter Kent with lyrics by Kim Gannon and Buck Ram I’ll be home for Christmas You can...
Nov 26, 2023
Let's Face the Music and Dance
26 November 2023 Let’s Face the Music and Dance by Irving Berlin There may be trouble ahead But while there’s moonlight and music And...
Oct 28, 2023
The Song Is You
November 2023 The Song Is You Music by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II I hear music when I look at you A beautiful theme...
Oct 17, 2023
The Continuing Crisis
17 October 2023 I recently read a very funny comment online about what, in America, has become the continuing crisis. “Break to...
Oct 1, 2023
Moondance
October 2023 Moondance Music and lyrics by Van Morrison; revisions by Debra Milligan It’s a marvelous night for a moondance with the...
Sep 11, 2023
Un Monde Avec Toi
Mid-September 2023 Un Monde Avec Toi Paroles: Charles Aznavour/Musique: Bert Kaempfert, Herbert Rehbein, Carl Sigman Jour après jour...
Mar 1, 2023
A Pot Pourri of Thoughts
March 2023 The days of our lives to remember are every day, not merely during officially sanctioned holidays and the fêtes declared...
Sep 5, 2022
The Mechanical Age
Labor Day 2022 The Kitchen Aid washing machine in my Dream House is not working — as of last night. I was not the discoverer of the...
Apr 1, 2021
Youth Dew: A Whiff from My Past
April 2021 About eleven years ago, I took part in a beauty product review website. At that time, that site was cleverly mining customer...
Jul 7, 2020
A Whole New World
Summer 2020 Reading information that has not even a remote link to my work is often how I discover aspects of writing that take me to...
May 25, 2020
One if By Land, Two if By Sea . . .
Memorial Day 2020 For protests, that is. Memorial Day this year can receive no higher honor, no greater tribute, no deeper dignity than...
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