Smoke Dreams - Looking Forward
October 2020 In 1936, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, a song called “Smoke Dreams” was featured in the highly enjoyable, highly...
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Sep 28, 2020
Book Six: La Résistance - Turning the Corner
Late September 2020 La Résistance is the term that was used most accurately, historically and fundamentally for the covert internal fight...
Sep 21, 2020
Sunday Sentiments - Introduction
Autumn 2020 I try to make Sunday a day of rest, the Lord’s day of rest, and I usually follow my own rule. Having grown up in a little...
Sep 19, 2020
Closing Bookend
Summer’s End 2020 This ship has sailed! The Book Reports section of my website is now officially closed, and joyfully so. I am much more...
Sep 8, 2020
Lighting the Torch - Labor On
8 September 2020 Yesterday, I observed Labor Day in the USA by working — on the translation of Chapter 77 of THE DAWN into L’AUBE. I’d...
Sep 7, 2020
The Home-Cat and the Hound
September 2020 Gabrielle is the Home-Cat now, in the new house called Larkhaven. After her release from 10 days of spacious...
Sep 1, 2020
King Lear - The Lost Scene
September 2020 King Lear: The Lost Story of The Lost Scene During my first semester back-at-school, that would be Sac State of the...
Aug 22, 2020
The American Spectator
Summer Souvenirs 2020 The drive-to-go was once described to me during my adolescence as the motivation to achieve, great things, with...
Aug 1, 2020
Getting Sirius: Miss Dior and Me
August 2020 Decades ago, I used to drive to Elk Grove, just south of Sacramento, during my pregnancy with Dear Daughter. Nausea was my...
Aug 1, 2020
From On High
Summer 2020 It takes time to assimilate the feeling of betrayal. The shock of trust being annihilated requires a patient approach. When a...
Jul 30, 2020
Home Notes - Introduction
Summer 2020 Welcome to Larkhaven During the course of designing and building The Milligan Dream Home, I decided to give it a name. It...
Jul 26, 2020
Restart Your Engines
Mid-Summer 2020 Where has all the thinking gone? Maybe it wasn’t there to begin with. The engine of thought takes some time to rev up, at...
Jul 15, 2020
Those Were The Days
Mid-July 2020 I used to look back at the 1990s and, almost immediately, rush, in my mind, to a future time. It is only within the past...
Jul 14, 2020
Aix Marks the Spot
4 July and 14 juillet 2020 I’ve been experiencing a difficult time trying to stay focused on my translation work. The final chapters of...
Jul 7, 2020
A Whole New World
Summer 2020 Reading information that has not even a remote link to my work is often how I discover aspects of writing that take me to...
Jul 5, 2020
The Morning After
5 July 2020 These 4th of July extravaganzas are not what they used to be — which means they are absolutely spectacular! I’ve experienced...
Jul 4, 2020
The Home Stretch
4 July 2020 We are closing in on the end-of-construction of my Dream House. Yesterday, I visited the site, which has begun to look like a...
Jul 1, 2020
Sea Fever - Summer 2020
Summer 2020 Sea Fever John Masefield: Poet of the Sea Born in 1878 in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England, John Masefield was perhaps a...
Jul 1, 2020
Castles in Spain - Don Quixote
July 2020 The masterpiece of Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote , has become more of a romantic legend than the romantic...
Jun 21, 2020
My Black Cat
Summer Solstice 2020 I hesitated about posting this information about my black cat, Annabella, or, as I called her, My Annabelle. She...
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