From husband Bill, Sept. 27, 2026
September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
1 in 6 men with have prostate cancer in his lifetime compared to 1 in 8 women who will have breast cancer in her lifetime. Prostate cancer is more deadly than breast cancer. Federal funding for breast cancer research is 1,000 percent HIGHER than federal funding for prostate cancer research. That's TEN TIMES HIGHER !!!
From husband Bill, Sept. 27, 2026
I like chocolate milk, specifically made with Ovaltine or Bosco, because it tastes like my childhood in the 1960s and 1970s.
From husband Bill, Sept. 27, 2026
I love corned beef hash and fried eggs for breakfast. My dad did, too.
From husband Bill, Sept. 27, 2026
Forgiving someone is more for the person doing the forgiving than for the person receiving the forgiveness. Just forgive, and get on with your life.
From husband Bill, Sept. 27, 2026
Today's date seems a bit early to be celebrating scarfs. I guess it depends on where you live.
From husband Bill, Sept. 27, 2026
You can crush a can today, if you want.
From husband Bill, Sept. 27, 2026
From husband Bill, Sept. 26, 2026
I created and uploaded a short video onto my YouTube channel in an attempt to find out what people think of President Donald J. Trump. Please write your civil comment in the comment section. No ad hominem attacks. (length: 1 minute, 43 seconds)
President Trump: Yes?; No? (Sept. 26, 2026)
Today (September 26, 2026) is National Singles Day, the Saturday during Singles Week.
I used to celebrate National Singles Day/Week every year, when I was single. I have been blessed with a wonderful wife, with me being married for the first and only time 22 days before my 45th birthday, since February 4, 2006, after about five years of dating, I fondly and not-so-fondly remember my single decades.
I am actually proud to tell you that I was without female companionship (between my only two girlfriends) from age 20 to age 40 (alone from February 1982 to November 2000) and not by choice, so I am quite intimate with the (good and bad) aspects of single life. (Please, no pity.)
I was rejected hundreds and hundreds of times by women, including 414 rejections by women in 18 months with a video-dating service in northern New Jersey in the mid-1990s, when I was in my mid-30s. I still wear my rejections as badges of honor.
Almost all of these women chose the word "unattractive" on the form as the reason for not wanting to meet with me for a date. When more than 400 women described me as "unattractive," I started to believe it.
When I was single, I read many books on women and thought of innovative ways to get myself on the proper side of romance.
I even wore a fake wedding ring for a few months twice in the mid- to late 1990s to get women to be friendly toward me: once while living in New Jersey and working in New York City; and once living and working in Florida. It did make women friendly toward me, but not that friendly. When a man wears a wedding ring, he automatically becomes more attractive to women.
I discovered a fascinating fact that I wish that I had known during my romantically dry decades. 80 percent of men are invisible to women. 80 percent of women compete for the same top 20 percent of men. It's even worse now. It's called hypergamy. So, fellas, women aren't rejecting us. They just don't see us.
Sept. 26, 2026
On this date in 1969, The Beatles released "Abbey Road," their last recorded album. Their album "Let It Be" was recorded before "Abbey Road" but released after "Abbey Road."
Note: "Abbey Road" was released on the Apple label. Today is National Johnny Appleseed Day.
From husband Bill, Sept. 26, 2026
From husband Bill, Sept. 26, 2026
Happy 81st Birthday to one of my favorite singers/musicians ever: Bryan Ferry. He was the lead singer, keyboardist, and songwriter for the (mostly) 1970s glam/pop/rock group Roxy Music. He also has many solo albums. I attended two of his solo concerts in 1988: in Philadelphia and in New York City.
My favorite Roxy Music song is "Take a Chance with Me" which has been my all-time favorite song since its release on 1982's "Avalon," Roxy Music's last studio album. NOTE: This is NOT the ABBA song with a similar title.
My favorite solo Ferry song is "Driving Me Wild" from his 2014 album "Avonmore." (Click the link below to watch the official music video.) Trivia: Ferry's son Tara plays drums on this song/in this video. Also, the short instrumental song that ends Roxy Music's "Avalon" album is titled "Tara."
Many thanks go to my cousin Scott for introducing me to Roxy Music's "Avalon," which I didn't like until my third listen. This was the first Roxy Music album I heard. Shortly after, I purchased every Roxy Music album in a used record store.
Trivia: His then-wife appears on the cover of "Avalon."
"Driving Me Wild" - https://youtu.be/T7UB_0AiLNU?si=lRGzhAcvPGzW1uW9
"Take a Chance with Me" - https://youtu.be/-frMKuom3r8?is=hReLE1dKZAYRn_mt
From husband Bill, Sept. 26, 2026
From husband Bill, Sept. 26, 2026
I like apples in all forms, except for raw. I like apple cider, apple cider vinegar, apple juice, apple sauce, baked apples, apple strudel, apple pie, apple crumb cake, apple crisp, apple butter, apple rugelach, Apple Jacks cereal, even dried apples, but give me a raw apple, and I will see how far I can throw it. It's probably because I hate the texture of a raw apple, and it's definitely because I absolutely HATE that "CRUNCH" sound when eating it. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard. So, if you eat an apple near me, don't be offended when I run away. LOL ... I do like eating raw pears. Go figure.
My favorite apple is the Granny Smith because it is sour, and, more importantly, it adorns millions of Beatles records.
From husband Bill, Sept. 26, 2026
I like pancakes, particularly chocolate chip pancakes, with real butter and real maple syrup. I also like blueberry pancakes.
From husband Bill, Sept. 26, 2026
I like those Chinese dumplings: fried, not steamed. I particularly like Japanese gyoza.
From husband Bill, Sept. 26, 2026
There are no such things as ghosts. Spirits, yes. Ghosts, no. (from an episode of "The Odd Couple" TV series)
From husband Bill, Sept. 26, 2026
From husband Bill, Sept. 25, 2026
Why do (liberal) women act like this these days? I don't ever remember women (or men) with such savage behavior in my more than 65 years on Earth. But hey, as John Lennon sang, "Whatever gets you through the night/your life, it's all right, all right." This is a parody song of the song "American Woman" by The Guess Who, with REAL images of these "modern" women.
https://youtu.be/5DGtDT0gDxk?is=HSXbCBjbsKVXX6MN
From husband Bill, Sept. 25, 2026
Today (Sept. 25, 2026) is National Comic Book Day.
I became a big fan of Jughead comic books (digests) in the early 1990s, when I was in my early 30s. During that time (1992 to 1996), I was a reporter, writer, editor, and researcher for a weekly, international magazine on the financial and technical aspects of the chemical industry. I needed to read something simplistic for a change to offset the complexity of the chemical industry, so I chose Jughead.
Jughead Jones (Forsythe Pendleton Jones III) and I are very much alike. He's lazy, awkward, clumsy, and a free spirit, plus he likes to eat, especially hamburgers, and is not popular with the ladies. He is just kind of ... "there," being somewhat superfluous.
I have been a fan of Jughead since I was a kid in the 1960s. I enjoyed the comic strips, which I still do, and The Archies Show cartoon TV series that aired for one season in 1968, when I was seven years old.
From husband Bill, Sept. 25, 2026
Today (Sept. 25, 2026) is National One-Hit Wonder Day. What is your favorite one-hit wonder? Mine is "Ariel" by Dean Friedman (photos) from April 1977. I was 16 years old when it was released.
Although it's about northern New Jersey in the 1960s, I can absolutely relate to it because I grew up not far away on Long Island, New York. (Both areas are quite close to New York City, so the experiences were similar.) The images in the video are from the 1960s and also seemingly from the 1950s.
When I was fairly early into my journalistic career (series of gigs), I eventually move to northern New Jersey in the mid-1990s, when I was in the midst of my four gigs in New York City (Manhattan) from 1991 to 1998.
I like this video and the lyrics of the song because both really capture the time period, and also both somewhat remind me of my childhood, although I'm not Jewish and was decidedly younger than the guy in the song at that time. Friedman had other minor hits, but "Ariel" is by far his most famous.
From husband Bill, Sept. 25, 2026
I like lobster, but I haven't eaten it in many years.
From husband Bill, Sept. 25, 2026
My wonderful wife makes delicious quesadillas.
From husband Bill, Sept. 25, 2026
I am "only" 65 years old, but this makes me feel old:
Today (Sept. 24, 2026), I am celebrating the FORTY-FOURTH (44th) anniversary of my FIRST published article in a newspaper. This solidified myself as a journalist and became the launching pad for a fascinating journalistic journey over several decades.
(I retired from journalism at the end of the day on March 31, 2017, due to medical issues.)
Here is my review of The Who’s 1982 album “It’s Hard,” which appeared in the September 24, 1982, issue of The Villanovan, the weekly newspaper of Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. Click/Tap on it to enlarge it. I also wrote a review of The Who concert I attended a month or two later.
After two-and-a-half years in the pre-med program at Villanova, I changed my major to communications with a minor in the French language, graduating in December 1984. I then graduated with a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia in May 1988.
My positions over the years include reporter, writer, rewriter, reviewer, proofreader, page designer, photographer, researcher, and many types of editors for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, books, statistical reports, white papers, news websites, and a wire service.
Here is a link to four of my articles on a website that I made. Just click/tap on the pages to enlarge them.
https://williamsantoswritingsamples.blogspot.com/?m=1
As for me now, I am (still) in the midst of writing an autobiographical novel, and I am (still) in the preliminary stages of self-publishing a book of self-penned poetry. I also maintain a personal blog and a YouTube channel.
Here is the link to my YouTube channel. Please subscribe. It's free.
https://youtube.com/@billsantospianomore678
From husband Bill, Sept. 24, 2026
I would like to take this opportunity to address one of my punctuation pet peeves and also to tell you a somewhat obscure punctuation rule that many people do not know.
PET PEEVE: Please do NOT place a comma between the subject and the verb in a sentence, even if the subject is lengthy. For example, do NOT place a comma in the following sentence:
"The boy who lives down the street in the two-story house is coming to our apartment for dinner."
If you place a comma between the word "house" and the word "is," it is incorrect and is tantamount to writing this sentence: "I, am."
RULE: When making a word ending in "ss" possessive, the method is based on the first letter of the next word. For example:
the boss's chair
the boss' salary
the princess's castle
the princess' secret
Basically, you can have an "s" three times in a row, but not four times in a row. Did you know this rule?
(I was a journalist from September 1982 to April 2017.)
From husband Bill, Sept. 24, 2026
I have eaten Cherries Jubilee many decades ago. I would prefer it with chocolate ice cream.
Sept. 24, 2026
From husband Bill, Sept. 23, 2026
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, I enjoyed Swanson chicken pot pies. We didn't have them often. My wonderful wife makes them from scratch.
From husband Bill, Sept. 23, 2026
I'm going to eat a couple of sticks today. I like them.
From husband Bill, Sept. 23, 2026
From husband Bill, Sept. 27, 2026 September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. 1 in 6 men with have prostate cancer in his lifetim...
