Today is National Tell Your Story Day, and I've been thinking that the crux of this day is what the RRBC bloggers have been doing since March 1, 2024: telling our stories. I have so enjoyed everyone's stories; however, I want to come from a different angle today. I...
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A Day in My Life, March 13, 2024 — National Good Samaritan Day
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 welfare on the...
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,...
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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...
A Day in My Life, March 19, 2024 – National Backyard Day
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...
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...
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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.
Readers can learn about Wanda’s other writing projects by clicking “Writing.”
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On the Road, Again
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 Region Midwest, also...
Baseball Season
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a huge baseball fan. But this year--I have, as my father from the south would say--no "dog in this fight." My favorite team finished dead last in the American League East--for the second consecutive year. We had no pitching; on days...
New York Times Ends Sportswriting
Some readers of this blog may know that, at one point in my (then) young life, I had wanted to become a sportswriter. However, following an encounter with a then-outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels, who advised me in the mid-1960s, that, as a woman, I would have a...
Dialogue?
This is the story of two people who meet by chance on an airplane during a snowstorm a few days before Christmas and a relationship develops. The man's mother tries many ways to thwart the process, and a mysterious woman wearing a magical scarf plays a role in the...
There Are No Words
I stood in line at a local funeral home tonight for what seemed like hours, but it was only about 45 minutes. The deceased is a 43-year-old man who attended nursery school, elementary, middle, and high schools with my own two...
Hall of Fame
Margie Rosenkranz of The Eighth Step photographs Wanda holding the 'Golden Record' Eddies Award, as she's being photographed as well. Who would ever have thought that I would be part of an actual Hall of Fame? I mean, I'm a regular visitor to the Baseball Hall of Fame...
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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.
