18 April 2022 The Summer of 1999 was exactly one year after the Milligans moved to the country fixer-upper in Newcastle from the brand...

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...

5 April 2022 Today, I showed up at the lunch table of my domicile wearing this outfit that Dear Husband immediately dubbed: Feeling Zen....

31 March 2022 The Best Things in Life Are Free George Gard “Buddy” DeSylva / Lew Brown / Ray Henderson The moon belongs to everyone The...

28 March 2022 Grocery shopping is, of course, and, of late, a shock to the systems: financial, emotional, moral, and culinary. Today, I...

Spring 2022 On Sunday, 9 January 2022, I made an entry in my personal journal: Started the Draft of SHADOW this afternoon. Tossed out the...

Spring 2022 Because my writing work is so intimately involved with my love of beautiful textiles, and my work with sewing (particularly...

St. Patrick’s Day 2022 Danny Boy by Fred E. Weatherly Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the...

Ides of March 2022 The operative words for any half-baked answer to the flying flambé question about what the heck is going on — anywhere...

March 2022 Poor Wayfaring Stranger A Religious Ballad, sung by one person " The Wayfaring Stranger " (also known as " Poor Wayfaring...

25 February 2022 Gabrielle is such a brave cat that I once wrote an essay to detail her exploits against an annoying and intrusive...

25 February 2022 Ice Mountain is the name given to the expansive storage lot adjacent to the Michigan Assembly Plant (MAP) in Wayne. The...

February 2022 The Rose by Amanda McBroom Some say love, it is a river That drowns the tender reed Some say love, it is a razor That...

25 January 2022 This second child of Queen Victoria, the last monarch of the House of Hanover, and of her consort and first cousin,...

13 January 2022 I am up to my ears in writing fiction this week. My first Western novel SHADOW is casting quite a big penumbra in my life...

January 2022 Welcome to the most vocal portion of my website, which includes a few previously recorded performances from the Dramatic...

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

9 December 2021 On Monday, 6 December, Mr. Milligan received — in the mail — the Official Bronco 2022 Calendar. The mailer box states:...

Thanksgiving 2021 The Story of Chicken Little California Citizen Warnings: No Free-Range Chickens Were Harmed in the Reading of This...

20 November 2021 Last week, Dear Husband pulled, out of a delivered mailing box, a flag. The Bronco flag, to be specific. “Why is it...