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A Day in My Life, March 18, 2024 — Monday, Monday

The Mamas and Papas had a song called "Monday, Monday" in the 1970s. One of the lines was "Monday, Monday, can't trust that day..." Lots of things happen on Mondays, though. Today, I am supposed to rehearsefor a singing engagement NEXT Monday, when my good friend...

A Day in My Life: The Ides of March: March 15, 2024

If you remember reading Shakespeare's Julius Cesar any time in high school, you probably remember the warning, "beware the ides of March." That would be today, March 15th. I'm not long over my shoulder, worrying about some enemy coming to do me harm. Instead,...

A Day in My Life, March 14, 2024 — National Tell Your Story Day

Today is National Tell Your Story Day, and I've been thinking that the crux of this day is what the RRBC bloggers have been doing since March 1, 2024: telling our stories. I have so enjoyed everyone's stories; however, I want to come from a different angle today. I...

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A Day in My Life, March 18, 2024 — Monday, Monday

The Mamas and Papas had a song called "Monday, Monday" in the 1970s. One of the lines was "Monday, Monday, can't trust that day..." Lots of things happen on Mondays, though. Today, I am supposed to rehearsefor a singing engagement NEXT Monday, when my good friend...

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Wanda began following baseball in 1956 as an ardent fan of the Boston Red Sox. She made her first visit to Fenway Park in the early 1960s when she was fourteen years old. She parlayed her love of baseball and developed characters based on people she’d met in minor league and major league ball and sent them to play in the minors in western New York. Set in 1972, the novel examines the challenges they face—not always on the baseball diamond.

Empty Seats attracted attention from Minor League Baseball, as well as the (now defunct) nationally syndicated "Only a Game” radio show.

Following publication, Empty Seats won a number of citations, including the New Apple Award and the Independent Publishers’ Award.

Wanda’s love of baseball still lingers to this day. In 2012, she auditioned to become the public address announcer at Fenway Park. Although she didn’t get the position, she had the opportunity to announce a full game between the Red Sox and the Minnesota Twins in August 2012.

Readers can learn about Wanda’s other writing projects by clicking “Writing.”

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A Day in My Life: The Ides of March: March 15, 2024

If you remember reading Shakespeare's Julius Cesar any time in high school, you probably remember the warning, "beware the ides of March." That would be today, March 15th. I'm not long over my shoulder, worrying about some enemy coming to do me harm. Instead,...

A Day in My Life, March 14, 2024 — National Tell Your Story Day

Today is National Tell Your Story Day, and I've been thinking that the crux of this day is what the RRBC bloggers have been doing since March 1, 2024: telling our stories. I have so enjoyed everyone's stories; however, I want to come from a different angle today. I...

A Day in My Life, March 13, 2024 — National Good Samaritan Day

The biblical story of a man who was a Samaritan stopped to help another human being who'd been robbed and beaten--after many others had ignored or passed him by, even his own countrymen--by paying for his lodging and medical care , and checking on his welfare on the...

A Day in My Life, March 12, 2024: National Working Moms Day

Today, March 12, 2024, is National Working Moms Day, according to the calendar. I think every day is working mom's day. Whether a woman has a job outside of her home with a salary or works at home without a salary, she's a working mother. My daughter, who has three...

A Day in My Life, March 11, 2024 – Just a Plain, Old Monday

Today is a plain, old Monday. I didn't sleep well last night, so I'm taking things slowly today. The wind was howling so much overnight that I couldn't ignore it. It sounded as it the trees in my backyard were going to come crashing down on the garage. They didn't,...

A Day in My Life, March 10, 2024 — National Harriet Tubman Day

Today is National Harriet Tubman Day. Soon her picture will replace that of Andrew Jackson on the twenty-dollar bill. So why would the government want to honor a Black woman this way? After all, she was born with the name Araminta Ross into slavery somewhere around...

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Wanda made her singing debut when she was only four years old at a family reunion in southwestern Virginia. From that day forward, she always wanted to make a recording, even if it only meant something for her family.

She made that dream come true when she gathered a number of her professional folk music friends and produced “Singing Along with the Radio.” These were people she’d always wanted to sing with, and they went into recording studios to complete the task.

When all was said and done, the CD was well received by both the public and folk DJs. It has enjoyed airplay in the United States, Canada, and Ireland.