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...
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A Day in My Life – Friday Edition – January 13, 2023
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...
A Day I My Life – TV Commercials that Drive Me Crazy Edition – January 12, 2023
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,...
A Day in My Life – Kindergarten Edition – January 11, 2023
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"...
A Day in My Life – School Volunteer Edition – January 10, 2023
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,...
A Day in My Life – Catching Up Edition – January 9, 2023
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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A Day in My Life – Elvis Edition – January 8, 2023
Today would have been Elvis Presley's eighty-eighth birthday. I mention this because today I attended a party given by a very old friend of mine. She, another woman (who wasn't able to attend the party), and I made a pilgrimage to Graceland about ten years ago. We...
A Day in My Life – Radio Edition (January 7, 2023)
I slept late today, as I often do, prior to going to WAMC to do my weekly radio show. I finish my on-air duties at 10 pm ET, but I have lots to do before I can head home. I don't normally leave until somewhere around midnight. (My show airs from 8-10 pm ET. You can...
A Day in My Life – Fighting the Medical Establishment Edition, January 6, 2023
Readers of this blog may or may not know that I am married to a retired family physician. He and I have been married for almost 50 years, and I went through the entire medical school "experience" with him, from 1975-79, followed by his residency and subsequent...
A Day in My Life, January 5, 2023 – Football Edition
Today I heard that Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin, the 24-year-old safety who suffered from cardiac arrest on the field in Cincinnati on Monday night, is making improvements at that city's major medical center. He's apparently awake and communicating with...
A Day in My Life – January 4, 2023 – Kindergarten Edition
/> On Wednesdays, I'm an aide with a kindergarten class in a Schenectady City School. In my other volunteer work, I read, one-on-one, with specific students. I've worked with the teacher I was with today for more than six years, although the pandemic quarantine year...
A Day in The Life – January 3, 2023
Exciting times in the Schenectady School District today! I am a volunteer reader at two of the city's elementary schools. On Tuesdays I work with a second grader and a third grader, both boys. This is the second year I've worked with the third grader. I went to the...
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