We haven't had much snow here in the great northeast this year. We're 250 miles east of Buffalo, New York, the city that was slammed at Christmas. Normally, we've had several snowstorms by this time every winter, but this year is different. California is being...
Today was kindergarten day for me. I simply don't know how the teacher has enough energy to do her job every day. What energy! What creativity! What tenacity! I only go in Wednesday mornings; she's there every day. Today's lesson was on the letter "Q" (lower- and...
A great day with mixed precipitation. My late mother would have said, "It feels like snow," but it's rain that's falling from the sky, with the temperature hovering precariously near the 32-degree mark. I dread the thought that the roads may turn into a giant skating...
I have been listening to speeches and remembrances of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the radio and television today, also reading tributes in major newspapers. I know several musicians who are doing performances today--ones I wish I could have attended. On this day, I...
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s actual birthday. Public Broadcasting ran a documentary covering the music of the Civil Rights Movement, so two of my great musical buddies and I got together, ordered a pizza, and watched the show. What memories it brought back to...
On this gray (and on-and-off snowy) Saturday, I have been busy doing things around the house and errands outside of the house. I missed the RRBC "Eyes on the Book" session because I was involved in something else and looked up, noticing that the clock said 12:45...
It’s a novel about baseball–and life.
Three strangers met by chance in 1972 with one thing in common: baseball. They want to become major league baseball players. They were star pitchers on the baseball teams in their respective home towns, and baseball is what brought them together to play for a minor-league team in a remote town in western New York.
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Triskadekaphophia is the official word for being afraid of Friday the 13th in any month. How did the number thirteen become unlucky to some, while others consider the number to be lucky? One theory in folklore posits that the unlucky number 13 originated with the...
Time for a lookback on the week. As usual, I've stayed busy all week, blogging for the RRBC challenge, contributing to some of my other projects, tweeting (yes, I'm still there), previewing new CDs for my radio show, attending two Zoom meetings for boards of directors...
In my never-ending quest to stay away from politicizing my blog today (which isn't easy), I'm going to complain about something that's driving me crazy: TV commercials that: --feature thirty-somethings complaining about "crow's feet" around their eyes, and, therefore,...
Today I volunteered in a local kindergarten class. This is the teacher with whom I first started volunteering in the reading program seven years ago. She is an amazing teacher. She tells me all the time how much she loves her job. She's doing what they call "looping"...
I am part of a local program called Reading is Fun. The purpose is to do one-on-one work with students who may not have people at home to work with them on reading, and to instill a love of reading in them. I've been associated with this program for seven years,...
After a crazy day yesterday, in which I: --sang in the folk group at church --played in a USTA tennis match --attended a party at the home of one of my oldest friends --wrote a blog post --spent two hours editing I figured today would be a day to chill (as much as I...
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