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...
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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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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 – Catching Up Edition – January 9, 2023
After a crazy day yesterday, in which I: --sang in the folk group at church --played in a USTA tennis match --attended a party at the home of one of my oldest friends --wrote a blog post --spent two hours editing I figured today would be a day to chill (as much as I...
A Day in My Life – January 4, 2023 – Kindergarten Edition
/> On Wednesdays, I'm an aide with a kindergarten class in a Schenectady City School. In my other volunteer work, I read, one-on-one, with specific students. I've worked with the teacher I was with today for more than six years, although the pandemic quarantine year...
A Day in The Life – January 3, 2023
Exciting times in the Schenectady School District today! I am a volunteer reader at two of the city's elementary schools. On Tuesdays I work with a second grader and a third grader, both boys. This is the second year I've worked with the third grader. I went to the...
A Day in the Life – January 2, 2023
Lethargy has set in today. I have a thousand things to do and don't feel like doing any of them. In some ways, I'm still recovering from our trip to Michigan, which ended last Wednesday night--very late last Wednesday, I might add. We had to drive back the long way in...
Celebrating an Idol – A Day In The Life
Sunday, January 1, 2023...The Greenwich Village Folk Festival held an all-star--in folk music terms, anyway--85th birthday celebration for Tom Paxton. I listened to the on-line show, co-hosted by two of my folk DJ friends (Ron Olesko and Mike Regienstrief), from 7-10...
And Still…
I did everything right. I was one of the first people to sign up for the Pfizer vaccination and got both of them. And still I got COVID19. I have both Pfizer boosters. And still I got COVID19. I have worn a KN95 mask to all public places--grocery stores, drug stores,...
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