At Last - 4 July 2019
5 July 2019 My years in Washington, D.C. were wretched ones, highlighted by a half-a-dozen stellar, stalwart individuals whom I...
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Jul 1, 2019
Summer Driving Lessons
July 2019 Sure, It’s Eggy . . . The automobile and I have a fairly tortured history. And, in all fairness to myself, it wasn’t a one-way...
Jul 1, 2019
Disney on Strike!
July 2019 Prelude During the autumn of 2018, Debra began to read what is deemed the definitive biography of Walter Elias Disney — Walt...
Jun 21, 2019
Revolution! Almost a Miracle
Summer Reading 2019 Almost a Miracle by John Ferling Published 2007 It is with enormous pleasure that I am reading this book about the...
Jun 6, 2019
Book Four: Operation Nottingham - Op Nott
D-Day 2019 Ah ! Comment Artur me manque ! Oh! How I miss Arthur! In French, missing someone is a matter of putting the onus on the other...
May 27, 2019
The Bands and the Beeb
Memorial Day 2019 It was during my research into the voluminous materials that would transform my ideas for a war novel called NOTTINGHAM...
May 1, 2019
Etiquette: The Art of Refinement
May 2019 I was raised with a ton of etiquette. Manners were the strong suit of my mother. Morals is where she fell down, precipitously...
Apr 1, 2019
The Insular American
The April Fools 2019 This phrase is not mine. I found it in a diatribe posing as a book review on the rain-forest selling platform that...
Mar 29, 2019
Don't Give Up The Ship!
29 March 2019 DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP! It has become nearly impossible for the will of civilized people in the grass-roots of a nation to...
Mar 24, 2019
The Beatitudes of Spring
March 2019 The Beatitudes are among the most blessed and beloved of scriptures from the Holy Bible, specifically from the King James...
Mar 20, 2019
Glorious Technicolor
Spring 2019 Spring into Technicolor Resistance to Change What’s Old Is New! The forces that oppose change — and form resistance to...
Mar 3, 2019
An Essay for Patt
3 March 2019 The day will be cloudy and gray this Tuesday in Newcastle, California. On that day, I will join others to celebrate the...
Mar 1, 2019
Mr. Magoo's The Count of Monte Cristo
March 2019 The Count Counts - Mr. Magoo's The Count of Monte Cristo A Book Review by Ronald Milligan There is nothing like the strains of...
Feb 21, 2019
Mitsouko - Return from Battle
February 2019 My literary research leads me in all sorts of directions, to all sorts of places, perhaps for all sorts of reasons....
Feb 13, 2019
Email Notes
13 February 2019 There are times, on a rainy Wednesday such as this one, when the rain and gray skies become overwhelming. And the Day...
Feb 3, 2019
The Writer Speaks -The Mists of Time
February 2019 We met in the mists of time, and though he did not see me as clearly as I saw him, he saw me well enough to know that I...
Feb 1, 2019
Mr. Magoo’s Cyrano de Bergerac
February 2019 Mr. Magoo’s Cyrano de Bergerac (Adapted for the Screen by True Boardman) A Book Review by Ronald Milligan The original...
Jan 6, 2019
Retreat into Tomorrow
Epiphany 2019 The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s by Marc McCutcheon Hardcover - 320 pages Writers Digest Books First...
Jan 2, 2019
The Pastie
January 2019 Rainy Day Repast: The Pastie I used to call this culinary creation The Paste-ee, not Past-ee, to tease my husband. This...
Jan 1, 2019
Gambling for Life
Happy New Year 2019 I don’t go to Reno anymore; I go to Zappos. It’s a pass line bet, each time that I order any pair of shoes or boots...
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