Today I'm winding down a bit, trying not to get too involved in anything. Some people I saw this morning at church were all hyped up about the Buffalo Bills-Cincinnati Bengals football game tonight. I don't really follow football, but I do understand why this may be...
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A Day in My Life – Red Sox Edition – January 21, 2023
Today I got up early (well, early for me) and drove the 100 miles it takes to get to the MGM Grand Casino to attend Red Sox Winter Weekend. This is an event they began in 2015 (n.b.: I have attended all of them--none took place in 2021 and 2022 due to the pandemic). I...
A Day in My Life – Red Sox Winter Weekend Preview – January 20, 2023
Well, here it is, Friday, and I haven't accomplished much today. I did go to the sporting goods store and purchased baseballs to bring with us tomorrow to the #RedSox Winter Weekend event. My son, grandson, and granddaughter (the only female grandchild we have out of...
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A Day in My Life, March 5, 2024: National Sportsmanship Day
Today is National Sportsmanship Day--a day began in 1991 to encourage people who play sports to demonstrate collegiality and good behavior while playing sports. As a sports fan, this intrigued me. As the grandmother of children who participate in organized sports, I...
A Day in My Life, 2024: March 4: National Grammar Day
30-day blogging challenge Today, March 4, is National Grammar Day. I have always been a stickler for grammar. Even when I was in elementary school. When we were in grammar school and learned to diagram sentences, we students always thought that was an exercise in...
A Day in My Life 2024: March 3, 2024: National Anthem Day
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 haven't been...
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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.
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A Day in the Life – January 2, 2023
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 back the long way in...
Celebrating an Idol – A Day In The Life
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 Regienstrief), from 7-10...
And Still…
I did everything right. I was one of the first people to sign up for the Pfizer vaccination and got both of them. And still I got COVID19. I have both Pfizer boosters. And still I got COVID19. I have worn a KN95 mask to all public places--grocery stores, drug stores,...
Memories of the Hungarian Revolution
In October 1956, I was just about to turn eight years old. We had just purchased the first television ever in our household, which, at the time, had an antenna, a bunch of tubes, and frequently went out of service so that we had to call a repairman to fix it. The set...
War–What is it Good For? Absolutely NOTHING!
Turn on the news. Pick up a newspaper. What's the top story? Will Vladimir Putin actually invade Ukraine? Will the 100,000-plus troops he's sent to surround Ukraine begin moving in on the country he considers to be part of Russia? Is his goal to re-create the old...
Work Refiner
As part of my journey in book publishing, I discovered an amazing service known as Word Refiner. I spent a week with the proprietor, Mark Schultz, responding to questions and doing an online interview with him. Mark is a great resource for authors. His website,...
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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.
