Recently, I've gone somewhere, done something, or seen something amazing I've shared in these pages. Here, you'll find my most recent posts, covering a wide range of topics that pique my interest. Whether you're passionate about travel, captivated by photography, enchanted by music, or intrigued by computer programming, there's likely to be something here for everyone!

Dive in and explore the latest insights, stories, and adventures that I have to share. Enjoy your stay!

Create Album Cover

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/27/2026		Page Views: 78
Hashtags: #Software #Music #AlbumArt #CoverArt #Images
A free tool that turns any photo into a album cover!
Estimated reading time: 4 minute(s) (850 words)

Music players want a square cover image in every album folder, and most of the pictures worth using aren't square, aren't the right size, and don't have the artist's name on them. Create Album Cover fixes all three at once: drop in a photo, type the artist and album, drag the text where you want it, and save. What comes out is exactly 500×500 pixels, which is what your music player is looking for.

Variations on 'Whippoorwill'

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/19/2026 Updated: 8/23/2026		Page Views: 1
Hashtags: #Music #Whippoorwill
One tune, sixteen eras. A whippoorwill's call is handed from a baroque court to a pop diva, each generation learning it from the last.

One tune, sixteen times. This album takes Whippoorwill—the song from Music Only Dogs Can Hear—and walks it forward through three hundred years of popular music, from a baroque court in the 1700s to a pop diva in the 2020s.

Run, Dick, Run

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/23/2026
Hashtags: #Music
A track from the album, The Concert Album.
Estimated reading time: 1 minute(s) (21 words)

TODO: a note about this arrangement.

Music Only Dogs Can Hear

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/23/2026
Hashtags: #Music
The title song: what dogs hear that we can't—and what we won't.
Estimated reading time: 3 minute(s) (481 words)

This song exists because the album needed it to. I'd had the title for a good while before I noticed there was no song by that name on the record—so the album was very nearly finished before its own title track got written.

Swingin' Boulevard Serenade

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/22/2026
Hashtags: #Music
A track from the album, 1945.
Estimated reading time: 1 minute(s) (21 words)

TODO: a note about this track.

Earth and Sky

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/22/2026
Hashtags: #Music
A track from the album, 1945.
Estimated reading time: 1 minute(s) (21 words)

TODO: a note about this track.

Fussing Over Stamps

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/22/2026		Page Views: 2
Hashtags: #Retirement #Hobbies #Stamps #Website #Productivity #DennisTheMenace
Mr. Wilson had his stamp album. I have this website. The difference is that I want you to touch mine.
Estimated reading time: 6 minute(s) (1231 words)

Nothing on this website is "productive". Nobody is paying me. Oh, I suppose I could put ads on the site. But I hate that on other sites; I'm not about to do that to mine. So there is no margin, no buyer, nothing here that anyone could resell for more than it cost to make. It is a jiggle. I put it there for the joy of self-expression, and then I kept it because I liked it, and those are the only two reasons I need anymore.

Coils

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/22/2026
Hashtags: #Music
A track from the album, 1945.
Estimated reading time: 1 minute(s) (19 words)

TODO: a note about this track.

Pa and the Camera

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/22/2026		Page Views: 146
Hashtags: #Music
A backwoods family gets their 'pitcher' taken.
Estimated reading time: 3 minute(s) (487 words)

My Mom, Edna Mae Brown, wrote this humorous poem back in the day when that was enough to get one into the local newspaper. I actually memorized this poem and recited it my high school, and some years later, it came in handy when I was M.C.-ing a kids' dance recital and an unexpected delay required me to fill in the time. Anyway, it's way past time it got set to music.

Little Miss Muffet

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/22/2026
Hashtags: #Music
A track from the album, 1945.
Estimated reading time: 1 minute(s) (21 words)

TODO: a note about this track.

The Heart Remembers

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/22/2026		Page Views: 142
Hashtags: #Music
Mom's poem about forgetting everything except the one thing that matters.
Estimated reading time: 3 minute(s) (478 words)

Another of my mother's poems set to music. Edna Mae Brown-Cilwa was a published poet, and this one is collected with the rest of her work here.

Hula Boys

By: Paul S Cilwa	Posted: 8/22/2026		Page Views: 117
Hashtags: #Music
The real attraction in Hawaii, let's face it!
Estimated reading time: 2 minute(s) (360 words)

Long before it became a tourist attraction, the hula was danced by native Hawaiians of all genders—usually naked—as a serious art form. Then homophobic missionaries showed up, forbade the women from dancing the hula naked, and prohibited the men from dancing it at all. If they hadn't, we might well have been hearing tunes like this one back in the 1960s, instead of having to wait until now.