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...
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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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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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Memories of the Hungarian Revolution
In October 1956, I was just about to turn eight years old. We had just purchased the first television ever in our household, which, at the time, had an antenna, a bunch of tubes, and frequently went out of service so that we had to call a repairman to fix it. The set...
War–What is it Good For? Absolutely NOTHING!
Turn on the news. Pick up a newspaper. What's the top story? Will Vladimir Putin actually invade Ukraine? Will the 100,000-plus troops he's sent to surround Ukraine begin moving in on the country he considers to be part of Russia? Is his goal to re-create the old...
Work Refiner
As part of my journey in book publishing, I discovered an amazing service known as Word Refiner. I spent a week with the proprietor, Mark Schultz, responding to questions and doing an online interview with him. Mark is a great resource for authors. His website,...
RRBC Blog Tour
I've had a lot of fun this week, doing a blog tour with the incredible group I've recently joined, RRBC. They also chose Empty Seats as their May book of the month. If you're a writer, this is a terrific group for you to join. They are so supportive and knowledgeable....
Interview on “Only a Game”
Just wanted to post the link for my interview on the nationally-syndicated show, "Only a Game": https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/08/10/wanda-fischer-red-sox-advice-sportswriting Hope you'll check it out!
New Interview
Here's a new interview I did with www.theauthorsshow.com!
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