They Can't Take That Away From Me
February 2024 They Can’t Take That Away From Me Music by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin The way you wear your hat The way...
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Jan 27
When I Dream
February 2024 When I Dream by Sandy Mason Theoret I could have a mansion that is higher than the trees I could have all the gifts I want...
Jan 26
The Great American Broadcast
February 2024 The Great American Broadcast A Celebration of Radio’s Golden Age by Leonard Maltin An admitted child of the TV...
Jan 25
New Bookends
26 January 2024 This morning, I decided to re-open the Book Review section with a new set of bookends. I’ve an opening salvo, a...
Jan 25
D for Determined
February 2024 It’s been almost five years since I wrote the essay, “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” and posted it in Continuing Composition....
Jan 24
Walking After Midnight
24 January 2024 Walking After Midnight Music by Alan Block, with lyrics by Don Hecht I go out walking after midnight Out in the...
Jan 21
Running with The Big Dogs
21 January 2024 Jolene is an adolescent now She likes to run with the big dogs. She reminds me of me during that growth phase! I have...
Jan 20
Kenny Rogers - Future Tales
February 2024 Once upon a time, almost a lifetime ago, in early February 1977, a very young adult me, barely past adolescence,...
Jan 19
Tea Anyone?
20 January 2024 From the autumn of 2008 until the autumn of 2012, I was laser-beam focused on plowing ahead with my life, and with the...
Jan 16
Mid-Winter Reverie - Stardust
16 January 2024 Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael Sometimes I wonder why I spend the lonely night dreaming of a song The melody haunts my...
Jan 6
Beauty and The Beast
Epiphany 2024 Beauty and the Beast Music by Alan Menken, with lyrics by Howard Ashman Tale as old as time True as it can be Barely even...
Jan 2
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly
Epiphany 2024 Wouldn’t It Be Loverly Composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner All I want is a room somewhere Far away...
Dec 31, 2023
Duty Apparel
New Year 2024 This afternoon, I was perusing clothes on a selling-platform website and saw a category that I mis-read as: Woke and Duty...
Dec 26, 2023
The Ethical Tweeds
Dead Week 2023 The first in a series of ten articles . . . For me, those words cause an immediate (if that’s fast enough) clicking away...
Dec 10, 2023
Twas the Week of Christmas
21 December 2023 Twas the Week of Christmas By Debra Milligan Twas the week of Christmas and all through the house every creature was...
Dec 10, 2023
Cantique de Noël
10 December 2023 Cantique de Noël Musique par Adolphe Adam, paroles par Placide Cappeau Minuit, chrétiens, C’est l’heure solennelle Où...
Dec 10, 2023
Away in A Manger
10 December 2023 This morning, I received a message of profound truth and joy in my email box. I needed to read, and believe anew, these...
Dec 7, 2023
The Bottom Line
Pearl Harbor Day 2023 Last night, I had a rather telling dream about so many things. A woman, with a stack of papers in her hand, was...
Dec 6, 2023
I'll Be Home for Christmas
December 2023 I’ll Be Home for Christmas Music by Walter Kent with lyrics by Kim Gannon and Buck Ram I’ll be home for Christmas You can...
Dec 6, 2023
The Lost Art of Oatmeal
Winter Solstice 2023 This morning, I made oatmeal for breakfast. I’ve been known to eat oatmeal for dinner, or even an early lunch (or...
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