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Nov 24, 2023
Chapter 3 - Out on a Limb
24 November 2023 I may be going out on a limb here, but I venture to say that Black Month has been a bomb for the retailers that keep...
Nov 12, 2023
Side by Side
12 November 2023 Side by Side Composed and Written by Harry M. Woods Oh, we ain’t got a barrel of money Maybe we’re ragged and funny But...
Nov 1, 2023
She's a Dog
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...
Nov 1, 2023
Cruella de Ville of Cowboy Country
1 November 2023 One hot afternoon, during this past summer, I was seated upon my comfy couch, and the title “Cruella de Ville of Cowboy...
Oct 28, 2023
Black is the Colour
November 2023 Black is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair Traditional Scottish Song Black, black, black is the colour of my true love’s...
Oct 28, 2023
Rodgers and Hammerstein II - Some Enchanted Evening
November 2023 Those two surnames equate to musical artistry of a sort that re-defined American musical theatre. Richard Rodgers 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 28, 2023
Sentimental Journey
November 2023 Sentimental Journey Music by Les Brown and Ben Homer, with lyrics by Bud Green; I’m gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna...
Oct 27, 2023
The Games of Organization
November 2023 During this past summer, reading through the local real estate listings online became my morning pastime, a form of...
Oct 26, 2023
Learning Curve
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...
Oct 25, 2023
Eternally
November 2023 Eternally Music Composed by Charlie Chaplin, with lyrics by Geoff Parsons and John Turner I’ll be loving you, eternally...
Oct 23, 2023
Crazy
November 2023 Crazy Written by Willie Nelson Crazy I’m crazy for feeling so lonely I’m crazy Crazy for feeling so blue. I knew You’d love...
Oct 23, 2023
Charade
Halloween 2023 Charade by Henry Mancini When we played our charade We were like children posing Playing at games, acting out names...
Oct 23, 2023
Sixteen Tons
October 2023 Sixteen Tons Written by Merle Travis Some people say a man is made out of mud A poor man’s made out of muscle and blood....
Oct 22, 2023
Luscious Tastes of Autumn
Halloween 2023 Sometime during October 1999, I was in the local, and the only, grocery store near my home-town of Newcastle, California...
Oct 20, 2023
The Wrath of the Anglo-Saxon
1 November 2023 Several years ago, four to be precise, I broke my own rule about reading reviews of THE DAWN. I was living in the Rental...
Oct 20, 2023
A Tribute to Bonnie
20 October 2023 Bonnie Lynne Milligan, my first beagle, truly was my dog, but she truly was not a beagle, at least not a pure-bred one....
Oct 20, 2023
The Nightingale Sings
November 2023 This past week, I committed a couple of bold acts. I translated “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” into French. I...
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 11, 2023
Smile — Modern Times
11 October 2023 This afternoon, I sorted through a box of photographs from my early days as a mom. I’d had no idea how much fun I was...
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