by Wanda Fischer | Mar 3, 2024 | Baseball, Day in the Life, Life Experiences, Memoirs, Music, Uncategorized
30-day blogging challenge Today, March 3, 2024, is National Anthem Day I decided today’s post will be about my experiences singing The National Anthem at baseball games–and auditioning to sing it at the big league parks. As you can probably surmise, I...
by Wanda Fischer | Mar 2, 2024 | Day in the Life, Education, Essay writing, Life Experiences, Memoirs, Reading, Writing
Today, March 2, is “National Read Across America Day.” I wish it were Tuesday, because that’s the day I normally go into a school in Schenectady, New York, and read to a couple of students to help them with their reading skills. I volunteer with a...
by Wanda Fischer | Mar 1, 2024 | Day in the Life, Friends, Life Experiences, Memoirs, Remembrance
I’m in my eighth decade of life, and I’ve come to realize that there’s a week or a day to commemorate just about everything. When I worked in a long-term care association, there was Nursing Home and Nurse’s Month in May. As a folk music DJ,...
by Wanda Fischer | Nov 15, 2023 | Friends, Life Experiences, Memoirs, Writing
We met in the fourth grade at a choir rehearsal at St. Jerome’s Church in North Weymouth, Massachusetts. We went to our first Newport Folk Festival in 1966. We had just graduated from high school earlier that summer. We had to beg our parents to let us go. We...
by Wanda Fischer | Oct 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Travelin’ shoes…Got my travelin’ shoes… Well, that was Bill Staines’s song, but over the last couple of days, I borrowed it over the last few days. I took off in my Subaru Forester and headed west to Lisle, Illinois, for the Folk Alliance...