Summer 2021 Decades ago, I lived in a house on a street called Cattle Drive. The house was located in West Natomas, Sacramento, back when...

Memorial Day 2021 My Muse decided sometime last summer that I need a new vehicle, a Muse-Mobile that will amuse me! In NORTHSTAR, my...

31 May 2021 I’m not one to look back often, except to celebrate, or to commemorate, or to pick up the pieces of whatever it is I believe...

End of May 2021 We Don’t Snoop on Our Guests . . . But our guests snoop on us! Just kidding! Last summer, that would be the summer of...

May 2021 This American poet and writer was born in 1888 in Sprague, Washington, just southwest of Spokane. Mary Carolyn Davies emerged...

End of April 2021 During the summer of 2013, I was in the process of recording some songs for this website, specifically ones that had...

Easter Monday 2021 My essay for Easter this year focuses more on the words of the late Princess Grace Kelly (The Greatest Mystery) than...

Easter 2021 During this past autumn, October 2020, I experienced online a televised Easter special that had been produced in 1981 by...

April 2021 Having only recently removed myself, and my life, from bubble-wrap, I am eagerly breaking free of habits and patterns of...

April 2021 About eleven years ago, I took part in a beauty product review website. At that time, that site was cleverly mining customer...

Thoughts for St. Patrick’s Day 2021 In America, musical theatre historically and traditionally has consisted of a musical play — a...

15 March 2021 Beware the Ides of March. I quote the Bard, from his play, Julius Caesar. The Roman emperor has been warned by the...

23 February 2021 Today was most exciting for this writer. I unpacked the last of the Move-into-the-New-Home boxes. These cardboard...

9 February 2021 I once knew an ob-gyn who posted two framed documents in his waiting room. In those days, the mid-1990s, the room truly...

24 January 2021 As of 4:20 pm this day, The Draft Translation of THE DAWN into L’AUBE is completed. It has been a bumpy road for me, but...

Mid-January 2021 Always a Thief: Corporate Slave Trade Ralph Lauren, Fenton, Country Curtains, LL Bean, Nordstrom: The Family Business...

New Year's Day 2021 “I’m getting myself a husband, Sadie. I suggest you get one too — one that doesn’t belong to someone else.” I didn’t...

End of 2020 I’ve been “on the road” during the past few years, not running, but living in the midst of uncertainties and the mini-storage...

Christmas Eve 2020 The following paragraphs are taken directly from the 1949 edition of The Little Golden Books, published by Golden...

7 December 2020 I am presently progressing, or plowing, through the translation of the first chapter of the Final Book, Book 7, of THE...