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,...
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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 9, 2024 — Remembering Claire Milmore MacDonald
I can't let today go by without remembering Claire Milmore MacDonald. Today would have been her seventy-fifth birthday. She passed away in November from pancreatic cancer--a disease she valiantly fought for more than two years. We first met when we were in the choir...
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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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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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...
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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...
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