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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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 21, 2024: National Common Courtesy Day
Today is National Common Courtesy Day. I don't know why today is any different from yesterday or tomorrow. Every day should be common courtesy day. What is common courtesy, anyway? I don't know how it's defined in the dictionary. I know how my mother defined it,...
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: National Read Across America Day
Today, March 2, is "National Read Across America Day." I wish it were Tuesday, because that's the day I normally go into a school in Schenectady, New York, and read to a couple of students to help them with their reading skills. I volunteer with a local group called...
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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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Saying Goodbye
We met in the fourth grade at a choir rehearsal at St. Jerome's Church in North Weymouth, Massachusetts. We went to our first Newport Folk Festival in 1966. We had just graduated from high school earlier that summer. We had to beg our parents to let us go. We slept in...
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...
Hall of Fame
Margie Rosenkranz of The Eighth Step photographs Wanda holding the 'Golden Record' Eddies Award, as she's being photographed as well. Who would ever have thought that I would be part of an actual Hall of Fame? I mean, I'm a regular visitor to the Baseball Hall of Fame...
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...
Progress on My Novel, “Empty Seats”
Just wanted to give everyone a progress report on my novel. It has a title: Empty Seats. A wonderful artist is developing the cover, and an incredible editor has shaped it into what I hope will be a good read. It's the story of three baseball players trying to make it...
A Novel
I admit it. I'm working on a novel. I have finished writing the first draft, and it's in the editing process. It's about three baseball players trying to make it into Major League Baseball in the early 1970s. Yes. Just what the world needs now. Another novel. Ah,...
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