8 December 2024 Sometime during the autumn of 2019, I was in the midst of translating a chapter of THE DAWN into L’AUBE.  My method in...

Winter Solstice 2024 Try to Remember Song composed by Harvey Schmidt, with lyrics by Thomas Collins Jones Try to remember the kind of...

18 October 2024 On 18 June 2018, I copied down the following words into my Red Book of Quotations from French Literature:   p. 28  Ch....

10 October 2024 Trust is one intangible that gets abused on a daily basis.  And once trust has been mangled, then broken, the victim has...

September 2024 The Glory of Love Composed and Written by Benny Hill You’ve got to give a little, take a little   And let your poor heart...

18 August 2024 As the owner of a one-year-old beagle, i ought to label this essay, Jolene’s Life With Me.  Such is not the case,...

9 July 2024 Jolene is one year old today. It’s been quite a year, for her, for me, for Dear Husband. We spent this past year adjusting to...

1 July 2024 This past Christmastide, Mr. Milligan, he of Dear Husband and Webmaster identity, brought home what he called: “The...

Father’s Day 2024 This morning I attempted to purchase, online, a few exfoliating body scrubs from pureSCRUBS.  Things went fine,...

June 2024 The Thrill is Gone by Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell The thrill is gone The thrill is gone away Yes, that thrill is gone, baby...

24 March 2024 My Jolene is but eight months old as I write these words.  She’s little, but she does not see herself as under-sized in any...

4 March 2024 I awoke this morning rather early, at least for me, at 5:45.  The name of a man with whom I’d worked decades ago appeared in...

Presidents’ Day 2024 Pick Myself Up Music by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Dorothy Fields Nothing’s impossible I have found For when my...

21 January 2024 Jolene is an adolescent now She likes to run with the big dogs.  She reminds me of me during that growth phase! I have...

All Saints Day 2023 She’s A Dog Original composition and lyrics by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke; Rewritten by Debra Milligan She’s a dog and...

October 2023 Chanson d’automne 1866 by Paul Verlaine Translation into English by Debra Milligan Les sanglots longs Des violons De...

9 September 2023 Kissed by the Wind My Jolene is a beauty queen but more than that — She’s kissed by the wind, and that’s a fact. Her...

3 September 2023 Jolene Music and lyrics by Dolly Parton Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene I’m begging of you please don’t take my man. Jolene...

Labor Day 2023 The Impossible Dream Composed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics by Joe Danton To dream the impossible dream To fight the...

Music based on the Italian instrumental, “Concerto d’autunno”, by Camillo Bargoni; English lyrics by Al Stillman, Paul Siegel I hear the...