by Wanda Fischer | Jan 5, 2023 | Day in the Life
Today I heard that Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin, the 24-year-old safety who suffered from cardiac arrest on the field in Cincinnati on Monday night, is making improvements at that city’s major medical center. He’s apparently awake and...
by Wanda Fischer | Jan 4, 2023 | Day in the Life, Uncategorized
/> On Wednesdays, I’m an aide with a kindergarten class in a Schenectady City School. In my other volunteer work, I read, one-on-one, with specific students. I’ve worked with the teacher I was with today for more than six years, although the pandemic...
by Wanda Fischer | Jan 3, 2023 | Day in the Life, Uncategorized
Exciting times in the Schenectady School District today! I am a volunteer reader at two of the city’s elementary schools. On Tuesdays I work with a second grader and a third grader, both boys. This is the second year I’ve worked with the third grader. I...
by Wanda Fischer | Jan 2, 2023 | Uncategorized, Writing
Lethargy has set in today. I have a thousand things to do and don’t feel like doing any of them. In some ways, I’m still recovering from our trip to Michigan, which ended last Wednesday night–very late last Wednesday, I might add. We had to drive...
by Wanda Fischer | Jan 2, 2023 | Day in the Life, Uncategorized
Sunday, January 1, 2023…The Greenwich Village Folk Festival held an all-star–in folk music terms, anyway–85th birthday celebration for Tom Paxton. I listened to the on-line show, co-hosted by two of my folk DJ friends (Ron Olesko and Mike...