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Jan 20, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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...
Dec 5, 2023
White Christmas
December 2023 White Christmas by Irving Berlin I’m dreaming of a white Christmas just like ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten...
Dec 5, 2023
The Christmas Song
December 2024 The Christmas Song Written by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose...
Dec 4, 2023
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
December 2023 I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Written and Composed by Irving Berlin The snow, it is snowing and the wind, it is blowing...
Dec 4, 2023
Let It Snow! An L.A. State of Mind
December 2023 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Music by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn Oh, the weather outside is frightful...
Dec 1, 2023
Gifts from Writers Introduction
December 2023 This Gifts from Wrtiers section continues a tradition that I’d begun on my website when first it commenced in 2013. Many...
Nov 29, 2023
The Teapot Quilt
29 November 2023 It’s quite a feat, an actual coup — taking the Laptop in for repair-service during Cyber Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/EveryD...
Nov 26, 2023
Let's Face the Music and Dance
26 November 2023 Let’s Face the Music and Dance by Irving Berlin There may be trouble ahead But while there’s moonlight and music And...
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