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...
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A Day in My Life, March 19, 2024 – National Backyard Day
Since it's National Backyard Day, I dedicate this day to my dachshund, Oscar. He's the one who uses the backyard more than any of the occupants of this house. We adopted Oscar five days before the pandemic lockdown took place. He was ten years old at the time. No one...
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,...
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,...
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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, March 12, 2024: National Working Moms Day
Today, March 12, 2024, is National Working Moms Day, according to the calendar. I think every day is working mom's day. Whether a woman has a job outside of her home with a salary or works at home without a salary, she's a working mother. My daughter, who has three...
A Day in My Life, March 11, 2024 – Just a Plain, Old Monday
Today is a plain, old Monday. I didn't sleep well last night, so I'm taking things slowly today. The wind was howling so much overnight that I couldn't ignore it. It sounded as it the trees in my backyard were going to come crashing down on the garage. They didn't,...
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...
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