Since it's National Backyard Day, I dedicate this day to my dachshund, Oscar. He's the one who uses the backyard more than any of the occupants of this house. We adopted Oscar five days before the pandemic lockdown took place. He was ten years old at the time. No one...
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A Day in My Life, March 18, 2024 — Monday, Monday
The Mamas and Papas had a song called "Monday, Monday" in the 1970s. One of the lines was "Monday, Monday, can't trust that day..." Lots of things happen on Mondays, though. Today, I am supposed to rehearsefor a singing engagement NEXT Monday, when my good friend...
A Day in My Life: The Ides of March: March 15, 2024
If you remember reading Shakespeare's Julius Cesar any time in high school, you probably remember the warning, "beware the ides of March." That would be today, March 15th. I'm not long over my shoulder, worrying about some enemy coming to do me harm. Instead,...
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A Day in My Life, May 23, 2024, Is This Really Springtime?
Calendar spring came a couple of days early this year due to Leap Year. But the calendar was fooled because the weather has other plans. I woke up this morning with about three inches of wet snow on the ground. Now, that's not all that unusual here In upstate New...
A Day in My Life, March 22, 2024 — Ramblin’ ‘Round My City
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...
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,...
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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 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...
A Day in My Life: National Read Across America Day
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 local group called...
A Day in the Life, 2024 Edition: Happy “National Write a Letter Appreciation Week”
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, I'm happy that we still...
Saying Goodbye
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 slept in...
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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.
