by Wanda Fischer | Mar 13, 2024 | Day in the Life, Life Experiences, Music, Uncategorized, Writing
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...
by Wanda Fischer | Mar 12, 2024 | Life Experiences, Memoirs, Remembrance, Uncategorized, Women's History
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...
by Wanda Fischer | Mar 11, 2024 | Day in the Life, Life Experiences, Memoirs, Uncategorized
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...
by Wanda Fischer | Mar 10, 2024 | Day in the Life, Totally My Opinion, Uncategorized
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...
by Wanda Fischer | Mar 9, 2024 | Day in the Life, Friends, Life Experiences, Memoirs, Remembrance, Totally My Opinion, Uncategorized
I can’t let today go by without remembering Claire Milmore MacDonald. Today would have been her seventy-fifth birthday. She passed away in November from pancreatic cancer–a disease she valiantly fought for more than two years. We first met when we were in...