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BILL BLOG Monday, June 22, 2026    Hello, Monday morning. Looking for an 81-degree high today in Nashville, and maybe some rain.   THE WEEKEND Hope you had a great Father’s Day weekend. I’m proud that Donald Payne Whyte was my Father. And I’m proud to be the Father of this creative one, Heather Nicole Peterson .   My wife and I spent part of Father’s Day hooked up on the computer with our daughter and son-in-law, Casey , over in Germany, and we watched the movie “Michael,” which was really, really good. Michael Jaafar , who is Michael Jackson’s real-life nephew, played the lead role and was incredible. I can see an Oscar nomination.        The movie is a reminder of how incredibly gifted Michael was as an artist and creative genius.        AND IF YOU DIDN’T NOTICE It was a LONG Father’s Day, as it fell on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.   BACK TO VIETNAM I ...

BILL BLOG Friday, June 19, 2026   Here comes a weekend. It’s Friday. A comfortable day is on tap for Nashville, with the high temperature being 83.   YESTERDAY It was a day of feeling much better than I have in a long while, with that lingering cough and cold. I think it finally had enough of me and moved on. Good riddance. I’ve never cancelled so many events on my calendar at one time, but by the time Monday rolls around, things should return to normal for sure. Grateful for that.   I certainly missed being in the town of Heyworth, Illinois, for our Freedom Sings USA event that wrapped up last night with my four songwriter buddies singing songs they’d written with veterans up there.   4 more great veteran songs have been added to the list, and that’s such a great thing.        And I felt really bad when I got a note from some friends in southern Missouri who host Parrot Head concerts at their home, who drove all the way up to He...

BILL BLOG Thursday, June 18, 2026   And now, it’s Thursday morning. An 87-degree high is expected here in Nashville today.   And I woke up with this little view out our back window this morning.   Pretty good way to start the day.   YESTERDAY Yesterday was a pretty good day, as I finally feel like the worst part of this cough that I’ve had for so long may finally be subsiding. Grateful to feel even a little better this morning, and not so much “under the weather.”   It got me thinking, why do we always say, “I’m under the weather” when we don’t feel well? That must mean we NEVER feel good, because aren’t we under the weather ALL the time?   FREEDOM SINGS USA I’m supposed to be in Heyworth, Illinois today to write with a veteran, but this cold I’ve had forced me to cancel. But 4 other songwriter-friends are there, and I got this VIDEO of songwriter Bobby Tomberlin sitting down to sing the old classic song “ Ain’t Misbehavin ’” wit...