Taste Taste: Protein Soda

I created and uploaded onto my YouTube channel this taste-test video. (4 minutes, 10 seconds)

The piano introduction is an excerpt from one of my piano improvisations. I like to sit at my digital piano and just start playing whatever is in my head at that time. I make it up as I go along.

Taste Test: Protein Soda (April 19, 2026)

https://youtu.be/DOGPoCNTh3w?si=bsh7azKhLTr9GtU5

April 19, 2026

She Likes Men

from husband Bill, April 19, 2026

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, April 19, 2026

On this date in 1995, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. (He was pronounced guilty and then later executed on June 11, 2001.)

From 1992 to 1996, I was a reporter, writer, editor, and researcher for an international weekly magazine about the financial and technical aspects of the chemical industry.

Shortly after the bombing, FBI agents came to our office in the Financial District of New York City (Manhattan) because McVeigh had a subscription to our magazine. At that time, I was writing about heavy and agricultural chemicals, including the fertilizer ammonium nitrate, which was the explosive chemical that McVeigh used in his truck bomb.

I was NOT questioned by the FBI agents. There was no reason for that.

After all of these many years gone by, it is still disturbing to be tangentially (remotely?) linked to someone that evil, even though I wasn't really linked. McVeigh most probably read what I wrote about ammonium nitrate, but only of its supply, demand, and pricing, nothing more than that.

from husband Bill, April 19, 2026

Being half Italian, I love Amaretto, an Italian almond liqueur. Long ago, I used to drink Bocce Balls (Amaretto mixed with orange juice; no vodka). I also like those Italian Amaretto cookies. Sipping Amaretto straight is nice, too, especially after a delicious Italian dinner.

from husband Bill, April 19, 2026

Being half Italian, I absolutely LOVE eating garlic. However, my religion (Gaudiya Vaishnavism) forbids me from eating it because it causes passion. I still eat it. TRIVIA: The country that consumes the most garlic is South Korea.

from husband Bill, April 19, 2026

Today Is ...

from husband Bill

Today (April 18, 2026) is National Columnists' Day.

(I was a journalist from September 1982 to April 2017.)

My religion is called Gaudiya Vaishnavism, also known as Hare Krishna, which is a sect of Sanatana Dharma, also known as Hinduism. I wrote this column (below) in 2014 about my religion. It was published in almost all of the 24 southeastern Florida weekly newspapers in the chain for which I was working at the time (Forum Publishing Group, Sun Sentinel, Tribune Company).

My column was part of a series of columns written by the editors about living in today's world according to our religious tenets. It was published in our April 16, 2014, editions. At the time, I was one of two Assistant Editors (editor and page designer, and sometimes writer and photographer) for five of our weekly newspapers.

Click/tap on the (scanned) photo below to enlarge it. Also, I did an imitation of my father (1934-1997) in my column photo as an homage to my dad. He often had that smirk on this face.

Also, I wrote a weekly opinion column during my first paying journalism job (1989-1990), when I was the founding editor of the first of three community weekly supplements to a daily newspaper (as a reporter, writer, editor, photographer, and page designer) at the Newburgh Evening News in Newburgh, New York.

from husband Bill

Today (April 18, 2026) is National Animal Crackers Day. I don't particularly like them, but the larger frosted versions are OK. I prefer the former, traditional box design when the circus animals were still in cages (below). In a later version of the box, the animals were let loose due to a politically correct issue.

from husband Bill, April 18, 2026

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, April 17, 2026

I thought cheeseballs were more of a Christmas thing or a 1970s thing.

from husband Bill, April 17, 2026

I attended a crawfish boil with my wife many years ago at the home of my former co-worker. It was OK.

from husband Bill, April 17, 2026

Since 1986, I have written more than 300 poems, and many of them have been published in anthologies. During this time, I have never written a haiku. I did write a haiku in school when I was very young (in the 1960s), but that is long gone.

from husband Bill, April 17, 2026

What more can one say about bats?

from husband Bill, April 17, 2026

My Dad Said: Video

From husband Bill, April 16, 2026

I created and uploaded this very short video of bulls saying things said by my dad (August 30, 1934 - February 14, 1997). (length: 34 seconds)

Bulls Say Things My Dad Said (April 16, 2026)

https://youtu.be/h4OcGwW6h64?si=W9YQcOtKTBMUzqMV

Eggs & Orchids

From husband Bill, April 16, 2026

I am quite partial to Eggs Benedict.

Trump To Be Honored

strange 

"Trump to be honored by CNN's potential new owner ahead of White House Correspondents' Dinner" 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-honored-cnns-potential-new-owner-ahead-white-house-correspondents-dinner

April 15, 2026

Selfie/Avatar

From husband Bill, April 15, 2026

Selfie (May 20, 2026)

Today Is ...

From husband Bill, April 15, 2026

I have had much success in my life by taking a wild guess, and then doing the opposite of my wild guess. (truth)

Easter Improv: Part 2 of 2

from husband Bill, April 14, 2026

I created and uploaded onto my YouTube channel this video of myself improvising on my digital piano on Easter Sunday. (length: 4 minutes, 50 seconds) ... My piano is at my mom's home nearby.

I like to sit at my digital piano and just start playing whatever is in my head at that time. I make it up as I go along. This is my method with all of my piano improvisations.

Easter Piano Improv: Part 2 of 2 (April 5, 2026)

https://youtu.be/GWzyM_rdcL0?si=WPYRtCJXCVyJHfAc