Wow, my fellow Rave Reviews Book Club and I have been at this since March 1, 2024. So far, we have taken each other on trips all over the place, learned new things about one another, and had fun. Today, I couldn't think of any special "day" to commemorate, so I'll do...
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A Day in My Life–March 21, 2024: National Common Courtesy Day
Today is National Common Courtesy Day. I don't know why today is any different from yesterday or tomorrow. Every day should be common courtesy day. What is common courtesy, anyway? I don't know how it's defined in the dictionary. I know how my mother defined it,...
A Day in My Life, March 20, 2024 – National Storytelling Day
I hang around with this terrific bunch of authors who are part of the Rave Reviews Book Club. They're all storytellers, in one way or another. Even those who write non-fiction are telling a story, because they have to collect facts and organize them in a way that...
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A Day in My Life, March 26, 2024 — School Days, School Days, Dear Old Golden Rule Days
30-day blogging challenge On Tuesdays I go to an elementary school in my area, via a program called Reading is Fun. I work one-on-one with two students--one in the second grade, one in the third--whose reading skills are lower than their grade level. It's an...
A Day in My Life, March 25, 2024 — Going to Plan B
Last week, I told everyone that I was supposed to be singing tonight at an induction ceremony for the Thomas Edison Music Hall of Fame recipients, class of 2024, sponsored by Proctors Theatre in Schenectady. Two of my friends, Margie Rosenkranz and the late Jackie...
A Day in My Life, March 24, 2024 — Power to the People
We lost power to our home--and many others in the neighborhood--yesterday at about 4:30 pm. I was driving home from the radio station at about midnight. The roads on the fifteen-mile drive weren't in good shape. The temperature was at about the freezing mark, and the...
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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 My Life, March 11, 2024 – Just a Plain, Old Monday
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 garage. They didn't,...
A Day in My Life, March 10, 2024 — National Harriet Tubman Day
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...
A Day in My Life, March 9, 2024 — Remembering Claire Milmore MacDonald
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 the choir...
A Day in My Life, March 8, 2024 – International Women’s Day
To celebrate International Women's History Day, we went to see the movie "Cabrini" today, about St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. It's very difficult to get my husband to leave the house, but, since he's a devout Catholic, he agreed to see the movie. It was very well done...
A Day in My Life, March 7, 2024: Alexander Graham Bell Day
Today is Alexander Graham Bell Day. Why March 7? It was on this day in 1876 that Bell received a patent for “transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” and on March 10, Bell made the now iconic statement, “Mr. Watson, come here. I need you," which...
A Day in My Life, March 6, 2024 – National Oreo Cookie Day
It's a good thing it's National Oreo Cookie Day. I need a cookie. Maybe a dozen. This morning, my son and his wife called me to say they need financial help because their septic tank is backing up into their house. Gross. Horrible. They need our help. They both work...
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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.
