Mid-April 2025 The hackneyed expression is “truth or consequences” — but my life has always been a matter of telling the truth and...

St. Patrick’s Day 2025 Recently, I watched a video of a podcast interview of Howard Lutnick, the 41st Secretary of Commerce of the United...

Valentine’s Day 2025 The key to romantic success, the one that unlocked the door to true love for me — came quite by surprise, perhaps by...

January 2025 Right or Wrong Composed by Arthur Sizemore and Paul Biese, with lyrics by Haven Gillespie   Just One of Those Things by Cole...

Winter Solstice 2024 I am always contemplative this time of year.  The weather has much to do with my creative mood and the types of...

Thanksgiving 2024 Kaw-Liga by Hank Williams and Fred Rose Kaw-Liga was a wooden Indian standing by the door He fell in love with an...

24 October 2024 Share Your Love by Alfred Braggs and Deadric Malone; changes by Debra Milligan It’s an evil wind that blows no good   And...

Mid-September 2024 We Love Each Other By Buddy Killen They ask me how we do it   and I tell them   We love each other.   There’s really...

26 August 2024 I’ve always been very sensitive to emotional rip-off acts, especially by mean old ladies posing as saccharine-sweet,...

15 August 2024 I Feel A Song in My Heart by Tony Camillo and Mary Sawyer; changes by Debra Milligan You, I loved you so But why I loved...

26 July 2024 My nineteenth summer was spent, much like the next three summers would be, living and working in Washington, D.C..  The...

16 July 2024 During mid-afternoon on Saturday, 13 July, I joined my husband in tracking down our one-year-old beagle hound, Jolene. ...

12 July 2024 In my resolutely unplugged state, I stay very far afield of the field of inept and incompetent journalists in America, and...

Flag Day 2024 It’s a topic, the unending battle on the human battlefield, with which any good novelist must deal.  On a personal level,...

June 2024 It wasn’t until I wrote the essay, Education in America, in January 2017 that I took a critical look at the social structure of...

February 2024 Once upon a time, almost a lifetime ago, in early February 1977, a very young adult me, barely past adolescence,...

Halloween 2023 Charade by Henry Mancini When we played our charade We were like children posing Playing at games, acting out names...

Autumnal Equinox 2023 Sway Written as ¿Quién será? by Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltran Ruiz; English lyrics by Norman Gimbel; revisions by...

September 2023 “You didn’t know me before you met me.” I made that comment to Dear Husband this afternoon, and he said, “It’s a good one:...

Good Friday 2023 A penstock at a hydroelectric dam, such as Pine Flat on the Kings River in Fresno County, California, is a massive...