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

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, April 14, 2026

My maternal grandfather had a wonderful garden with tomatoes, bell peppers, basil, and more, with a huge fig tree right in the middle.

My paternal grandfather had a tomato patch.

My dad had a garden one year, when I was a kid in the 1970s, but he put it under a tree. He got eggplants the size of eggs and romaine lettuce that grew to five feet long. Yeah. The lettuce didn't grow in bunches, just straight out; it tasted good. However, he planted pole beans in the sun. We had quite a substantial harvest. I remember picking them as the grew on the white, wooden fence by the driveway.

from husband Bill, April 14, 2026

I once enjoyed a piece of pecan pie topped with chocolate ganache. It was absolutely delicious. I do typically like regular pecan pie.

from husband Bill, April 14, 2026

I occasionally look at the sky and ask, "Why?" I often look at the sky and ask, "Why not?"

Today is more to admire the beauty of the sky and what is in it: the sun, the clouds, the moon, and the stars.

from husband Bill, April 14, 2026

This day encourages us to evaluate our goals and do our best to reach them.

from husband Bill, April 14, 2026

When I was 12 years old in 1973, I attended a showing in a movie theater of the film "The Day of the Dolphin." It was somewhat entertaining, but not really.

Overview (from Google):

"Marine biologists Jake (George C. Scott) and Maggie Terrell (Trish Van Devere) have for many years been doing dolphin research in the Florida Keys, and have even coached some dolphins to speak primitive English. But when two of the dolphins are kidnapped, an investigation proves that the Terrells' financial backers, the Franklin Foundation, have had sinister intentions all along. The dolphins are to be used to deliver and detonate explosives beneath the president's yacht."

from husband Bill, April 14, 2026

Easter Improv: Part 1 of 2

from husband Bill, April 13, 2026

I created and uploaded onto my YouTube channel this video of myself improvising on my digital piano on Easter Sunday. (length: 4 minutes, 26 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 1 of 2 (April 5, 2026)

https://youtu.be/M-VEo6x9FeI?si=5Ei4esI6Qfkiv2gL

PB&J

From husband Bill, April 13, 2026

I had the urge for a retro sandwich that I enjoyed many times when I was a young kid in the 1960s into the 1970s: Skippy creamy peanut butter and Welch's concord grape jelly on white Wonder bread. (Many thanks go to my wonderful wife for making it for me. Many thanks go to my terrific mom for making it many times for me during past decades.)

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, April 13, 2026

I do like peach cobbler, but I prefer it with chocolate ice cream, as I do with fruit pies (peach, apple, cherry, blueberry ...).

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

I play several games of Words With Friends on my phone. If you want to play, my username is Wsantos3434.

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

He's on the $2 bill.

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

Yanks Lost Again

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

Baked Rigatoni

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

This afternoon, my wonderful wife made this for dinner: baked Rigatoni with tomato sauce, Ricotta cheese, and pieces of pork, topped with a five-cheese Italian blend (Mozzarella, Provolone, Parmesan, Asiago, and Romano), and then baked. It's quite good. My wife made the big pan for us and the smaller pan for my mom who lives nearby.

My maternal grandmother would put pork chops (with the bone) in her homemade tomato sauce. I enjoyed it over pasta when I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s.

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

I am not a fan of American cheese, so I prefer my grilled cheese sandwiches made with brie, cheddar, provolone, or Swiss. I like American cheese on McDonald's cheeseburgers.

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

I have been to Colorado twice: once to go skiing in the mid-1980s and once to cover the opening of a sodium bicarbonate solution mine in the mid-1990s, when I was a reporter, writer, editor, and later a researcher for a weekly, international magazine based on the financial and technical aspects of the chemical industry. I worked there from 1992 to 1996 in New York City (Manhattan). I made the mistake of wearing black patent-leather shoes while taking a tour of the facility. My shoes were totally covered with white powder. 

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

While I don't really like the taste of licorice, I somewhat like the tastes of Anisette and Sambuca.

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

I grew up as an only child. I was blessed with a stepsister in the early 1980s, when I was in my early 20s, and she was a young teenager. I have since lost touch with her.

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

I used to occasionally fly kites at the beach when I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, growing up on Long Island, New York. My preference was and still is the box kite.

Many thanks go to my mom for getting our kite up on that blustery day at the beach in the 1960s, when my dad and I didn't have success.

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026

I used to love going to record stores.

from husband Bill, April 12, 2026