by Wanda Fischer | May 31, 2024 | Life Experiences, Memoirs, Music, Radio, Remembrance, Uncategorized
I wrote to Dick Summer several years ago, telling him how much his broadcasts on WBZ radio in Boston meant to me. I wasn’t in radio back then. I was in high school. He was an all-night DJ on clear channel (not the same thing as Clear Channel) WBZ. He was...
by Wanda Fischer | May 11, 2024 | Day in the Life, Life Experiences, Memoirs, Remembrance, Uncategorized, Women's History
Seventy-seven years ago, today, the woman who would become my mother, Gertrude Agnes Theresa Dwyer, and the man who would become my father, Giles Jesse Adams, boarded a Greyhound Bus in Boston, along with two of their friends, and headed to Seabrook, New Hampshire....
by Wanda Fischer | Apr 1, 2024 | Day in the Life, Friends, Life Experiences, Uncategorized, writer, Writing
Although I’m no longer in the Rave Reviews Book Club (RRBC) 30-day blog challenge (it ended on March 30), I would like to take a moment to toast the four people who joined me in that challenge–Pat Garcia, Joy Lilley (who both live in Europe), Nonnie Jules...
by Wanda Fischer | Mar 30, 2024 | Day in the Life, Friends, Life Experiences, Memoirs, Remembrance, Uncategorized
Today may be the last day of the Rave Reviews Book Club 30-Day Blog Challenge, but there’s no way that I will stop blogging. I have had way too much fun over the last month to quit here. I’ve been able to swap stories with four other incredible bloggers...
by Wanda Fischer | Mar 29, 2024 | Day in the Life, Life Experiences, Memoirs, Remembrance, Totally My Opinion, Uncategorized
Today I’ve been thinking about days gone while considering the fact that today is Vietnam Veterans Day. My husband is a Vietnam Veteran, but perhaps not your “typical” one. He was a conscientious objector. His draft number in 1970 was 20, so he knew...