At long last, what began as a sequel to Empty Seats is now available! Called Still Doing Time, it's the story of Jimmy Bailey, who first appeared in Empty Seats, as he began his quest to make it in Major League Baseball, only to find himself in a maximum-security...
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Two Hot Weeks Every July
(Wanda Fischer photo) Spending Two Weeks in Southwestern Virginia Was Always a Challenge My father was from the south, my mother from the north. For fifty weeks out of the year, we lived on the South Shore of Boston. Neither of my parents graduated from high school,...
A Day in My Life, April 1, 2024 — No April Fool’s Joke Here
Although I'm no longer in the Rave Reviews Book Club (RRBC) 30-day blog challenge (it ended on March 30), I would like to take a moment to toast the four people who joined me in that challenge--Pat Garcia, Joy Lilley (who both live in Europe), Nonnie Jules (RRBC's...
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 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...
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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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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