My late father, Giles Adams, with his mother, Maude Adams, in 1976--the only time she ever visited my family in Massachusetts. My (late) later was a hillbilly. He would have told you so if you'd have had the opportunity to meet him. He was proud of where he came...
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Dick Summer, Radio DJ Par Excellence, RIP
I wrote to Dick Summer several years ago, telling him how much his broadcasts on WBZ radio in Boston meant to me. I wasn’t in radio back then. I was in high school. He was an all-night DJ on clear channel (not the same thing as Clear Channel) WBZ. He was...
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 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 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, March 17, 2024 – St. Patrick’s Day (Also Known in My Family as the Day Brendan Patrick Prevost Was Born)
Here we are, on St. Patrick's Day, March 17--a day to celebrate St. Patrick, the wearin' of the green, lots of Irish music that, to me, as a folk music DJ, doesn't sound Irish (but it's what they play in pubs today), and even green beer (yuck). In my family, however,...
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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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A Day in My Life, March 16, 2024 – The Day Before Saint Patrick’s Day
It's the day before St. Patrick's Day. I don't drink alcohol, so I won't be involved in any green beer challenge or sampling any Irish whiskey. Instead, I will be selecting music for my radio show. Bill Fischer in Ireland, 2011 This is no small feat, given the huge...
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,...
A Day in My Life, March 14, 2024 — National Tell Your Story Day
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...
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 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...
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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