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...
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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 6, 2024 – National Oreo Cookie Day
It's a good thing it's National Oreo Cookie Day. I need a cookie. Maybe a dozen. This morning, my son and his wife called me to say they need financial help because their septic tank is backing up into their house. Gross. Horrible. They need our help. They both work...
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...
A Day in My Life, 2024: March 4: National Grammar Day
30-day blogging challenge Today, March 4, is National Grammar Day. I have always been a stickler for grammar. Even when I was in elementary school. When we were in grammar school and learned to diagram sentences, we students always thought that was an exercise in...
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...
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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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On the Road, Again
Travelin' shoes...Got my travelin' shoes... Well, that was Bill Staines's song, but over the last couple of days, I borrowed it over the last few days. I took off in my Subaru Forester and headed west to Lisle, Illinois, for the Folk Alliance Region Midwest, also...
Baseball Season
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a huge baseball fan. But this year--I have, as my father from the south would say--no "dog in this fight." My favorite team finished dead last in the American League East--for the second consecutive year. We had no pitching; on days...
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...
Dialogue?
This is the story of two people who meet by chance on an airplane during a snowstorm a few days before Christmas and a relationship develops. The man's mother tries many ways to thwart the process, and a mysterious woman wearing a magical scarf plays a role in the...
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 – 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,...
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