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Two Hot Weeks Every July

(Wanda Fischer photo) Spending Two Weeks in Southwestern Virginia Was Always a Challenge My father was from the south, my mother from the north. For fifty weeks out of the year, we lived on the South Shore of Boston. Neither of my parents graduated from high school,...

My Father Was a Hillbilly

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...

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, 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...

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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: 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 10, 2024 — National Harriet Tubman Day

Today is National Harriet Tubman Day. Soon her picture will replace that of Andrew Jackson on the twenty-dollar bill. So why would the government want to honor a Black woman this way? After all, she was born with the name Araminta Ross into slavery somewhere around...

A Day in My Life, March 8, 2024 – International Women’s Day

To celebrate International Women's History Day, we went to see the movie "Cabrini" today, about St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. It's very difficult to get my husband to leave the house, but, since he's a devout Catholic, he agreed to see the movie. It was very well done...

A Day in My Life, March 7, 2024: Alexander Graham Bell Day

Today is Alexander Graham Bell Day. Why March 7? It was on this day in 1876 that Bell received a patent for “transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” and on March 10, Bell made the now iconic statement, “Mr. Watson, come here. I need you," which...

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...

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