Summer Souvenirs 2020 The drive-to-go was once described to me during my adolescence as the motivation to achieve, great things, with...

August 2020 Decades ago, I used to drive to Elk Grove, just south of Sacramento, during my pregnancy with Dear Daughter. Nausea was my...

Summer 2020 It takes time to assimilate the feeling of betrayal. The shock of trust being annihilated requires a patient approach. When a...

Summer 2020 Welcome to Larkhaven During the course of designing and building The Milligan Dream Home, I decided to give it a name. It...

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...

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...

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...

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...

5 July 2020 These 4th of July extravaganzas are not what they used to be — which means they are absolutely spectacular! I’ve experienced...

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...

Summer 2020 Sea Fever John Masefield: Poet of the Sea Born in 1878 in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England, John Masefield was perhaps a...

July 2020 The masterpiece of Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote , has become more of a romantic legend than the romantic...

Summer Solstice 2020 I hesitated about posting this information about my black cat, Annabella, or, as I called her, My Annabelle. She...

Summer Solstice 2020 When chaos is all that the cowards of life have left, expect it to reign — in buckets. Mostly because the craven and...

June 2020 It is always best to return to the source of any matter, even if the matter is painful, especially if it is painful. So much...

6 June 2020 Being half-Dutch, I was always taught during my childhood that cleanliness is next to godliness, and, I always said, Out of...

Commencement Day 2020 As a mom, and as a woman, I gave this advice to my son whenever he, and I, were faced with an insufferable...

1 June 2020 Happy Retail USA I do not often mention by name, and mention in-depth, retail companies on this website. My purchases are my...

Memorial Day 2020 For protests, that is. Memorial Day this year can receive no higher honor, no greater tribute, no deeper dignity than...

May 2020 About twenty years ago, pre-me-Phone, during the most primitive impulses of the Cellular Network, there was an AM-news-radio ad...