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from husband Bill, June 12, 2026

I miss my paternal grandmother's peanut butter cookies (and her butter cookies) that she made when I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s. I also loved my maternal grandmother's Italian cookies during that time.

from husband Bill, June 12, 2026

I haven't eaten falafel in many years. I definitely like it.

from husband Bill, June 12, 2026

I do like beef jerky, especially the teriyaki flavor.

from husband Bill, June 12, 2026

My all-time favorite movie is "Help!" (1965), starring The Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear, and Patrick Cargill. In the 1970s, my CB radio handle (name) was "Algernon," Kinnear's character's name in "Help!" (Kinnear played Mr. Henry Salt in the 1971 movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.")

from husband Bill, June 12, 2026

Cake & Corn

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.

ICE Funding

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"

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-locks-ice-funding-through-end-presidency-after-house-passes-70b-package

June 10, 2026

Today Is ...

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

Some Girls

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

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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

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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

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