from husband Bill, June 11, 2026
Here is my opportunity to tell you that German chocolate cake has absolutely NOTHING to do with Germany. It's a brand name of a baker's chocolate named after an English-American guy named Sam German. The recipe for the cake was on his packages of chocolate and then became famous.
This is GOOD NEWS !!! ICE needs as much funding as possible, along with the military. Mass deportation is a practical way to strengthen a country's economy.
"Trump locks in ICE funding through end of presidency after House passes $70B package"
June 10, 2026
from husband Bill, June 10, 2026
I am not all that fond of a Black Cow (root beer with vanilla ice cream). At university in the early 1980s in my early 20s, I ate/drank my share of chocolate ice cream in orange soda.
from husband Bill, June 10, 2026
I prefer an egg roll to a spring roll, although the latter is authentic Chinese. I also like a summer roll, but that's a different, but similar item.
from husband Bill, June 10, 2026
I somewhat like frosted cookies.
from husband Bill, June 10, 2026
I am partial to basil and turmeric. I like Jelly Belly black pepper jelly beans.
from husband Bill, June 10, 2026
I occasionally enjoy an "Arnold Palmer," half iced tea and half lemonade. When I was attending golf camp in North Carolina in my teens and age 20 during Julys throughout the 1970s until 1981, I drank "Transfusions," which are Sprite and grape juice.
from husband Bill, June 10, 2026
I prefer to use black ink to blue ink, but blue ink is nice, too.
from husband Bill, June 10, 2026
from husband Bill, June 9, 2026
On June 9, 1978, the Rolling Stones album "Some Girls" was released. This album is near and dear to my heart because it is the official album of West Islip High School's Class of 1979 of which I am a member. Location: West Islip, Long Island, New York, near New York City.
Of course, I have this album on CD. Long ago, I had two copies on vinyl: one uncensored cover and one censored cover. Several celebrities and their estates—including Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the Marilyn Monroe estate—threatened to sue the band for using their images without permission, so the images were removed. George Harrison agreed to remain on the cover. He thought it was funny.
Our unofficial senior prom song is "Shattered" from this album. Our official prom song is "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" by Seals & Crofts. Both songs were played at our prom by the live band.
Also, someone (in 1979 around graduation day) spray-painted (in black paint) on the side of the high school: "Class of 1979 Shattered." By the time I retrieved my camera, it was already gone.
"Shattered," a song about New York City, is the last song on the album.
"Shattered, shattered
Love and hope and sex and dreams are still surviving on the streets
And look at me, I'm in tatters
I'm shattered
Shattered"
https://youtu.be/Wjz6l_4MqHM?si=ZOiqR27x82SuHrO6
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My all-time favorite Stones song is from the "Some Girls" album: "Before They Make Me Run."
"Worked the bars and sideshows along the twilight zone
Only a crowd can make you feel so alone
And it really hit home
Booze and pills and powders, you can choose your medicine
Well here's another goodbye to another good friend"
"Watched my taillights fading, there ain't a dry eye in the house
They're laughing and singing
Started dancing and drinking as I left town
Gonna find my way to heaven, 'cause I did my time in hell, oh yeah
I wasn't looking too good but I was feeling real well
… Oh after all is said and done
I gotta move I had my fun
Let us walk before they make us run"
https://youtu.be/2dGoKgSknuk?si=X3nnRDTh2t8IaBhu
from husband Bill, June 9, 2026
I am taking donations to buy Donald a pair of pants. 😉
from husband Bill, June 9, 2026
I have endured nine surgeries between March 2022 and May 2026: 1 heart, 2 chest, 2 spine, 1 right ankle, 1 both legs, 1 left foot, 1 left leg. Believe me, I am in touch with many doctors.
from husband Bill, June 9, 2026
... not for me ... I dislike strawberries, and I think that I dislike rhubarb.
from husband Bill, June 9, 2026
from husband Bill, June 8, 2026
What more can I say? I like jelly-filled donuts/doughnuts, particularly raspberry, cherry, blueberry, and apple.
I am reminded of a donut-shop baker whom I interviewed, as a new business owner, for a newspaper in upstate New York in 1989, maybe 1990, when I was just starting my journalistic career (series of gigs). For my article, I wrote that if readers wanted to know how the jelly got inside a jelly donut, they would have to ask the baker because I wasn't going to reveal his secret. Yeah, I know that was rather corny, but back then I was the quintessential neophyte.
from husband Bill, June 8, 2026
My "poison" is Campari and orange juice in an Old Fashioned glass over ice. I haven't had one in quite a while.
from husband Bill, June 8, 2026
Dinner (delivery): Sushi, specifically Fried Bagel Roll, photo below: salmon, cream cheese, white rice, and scallions wrapped with seaweed, and then tempura-fried. Of course, it is accompanied by pickled ginger and "wasabi." I also enjoyed gyoza (Japanese pork dumplings) with a soy sauce-based dipping sauce.
June 7, 2026
from husband Bill, June 7, 2026
Of the basic flavors, I prefer chocolate ice cream to vanilla ice cream, and I dislike strawberry ice cream.
from husband Bill, June 7, 2026
Ladies, today (technically yesterday, as the first Saturday in June) would be a good day to travel to the forest to visit the bear you would prefer to encounter than a man. (I'm only half joking.)
On a hunting trip in Canada long ago, my uncle shot and had mounted a record-setting, 650-pound black bear. My mom and I nicknamed him Max after the boxer Max Baer, whose son, Max Baer Jr., played Jethro Bodine on the TV sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies." Both my uncle and his father (my grandfather) were pugilists.
from husband Bill, June 7, 2026
June 7 is National Cancer Survivor's Day.
from husband Bill, June 7, 2026
I still have many VCR-format videotapes, but no videotape player. I even have videotapes with the PAL format from Austria, which I couldn't play here in the United States even if I had a video player due to incompatibility. I watched one tape long ago at my cousin's home in Austria of a pop concert tour of Rainhard Fendrich that we had attended with her and her then-husband in Vienna, Austria, in 1997. Yeah, I brought the tape with me on a subsequent vacation to Austria so that we could watch it together.
My dad purchased a videotape recorder in the mid-1970s. I remember that one of my earliest recordings from when I was 15 years old was of George Harrison and Paul Simon performing on the show Saturday Night Live in 1976. Also in the 1970s, I recorded a music show with promotional films of ABBA and Thin Lizzy, and a live concert by the Electric Light Orchestra.
from husband Bill, June 7, 2026
from husband Bill, June 11, 2026 Here is my opportunity to tell you that German chocolate cake has absolutely NOTHING to do with Germany. It...
