A Gift Out Of Nowhere In the fall of 2010, 10 year old Timothy Anderson of Crestwood Hills, California wrote a letter to Santa Claus. Anderson was a music lover, a fan of rock and roll, took music lessons, and … Continue reading A North Pole Snowball Incident Produces A Gift Out Of Nowhere
I was so focused on the Farmer’s story that I didn’t notice Rachel had entered the doorway of the Farmer’s office. She lightly tapped on the door and I spun my head left to see Rachel and Evan, the Farmer’s … Continue reading A Wednesday Afternoon Daycation Trip To Chincoteague Island – Part 4, The Farmer’s Daughter Comes Home
“How did a Topps Baseball Card employee from Pawtucket, Rhode Island end up on a farm on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, that’s was your next question is. Am I right?” asked the Farmer looking straight at me, no tears … Continue reading A Wednesday Afternoon Daycation Trip To Chincoteague Island – Part 3, You Did What?
The farmer extended his right arm in a “come this way” gesture to his office, the one I visited without permission. His other arm went on my shoulder, a very personal and gentlemanly move by a man looking to make … Continue reading A Wednesday Afternoon Daycation Trip To Chincoteague Island – Part 2, Let Me Finish Before You Judge Me
This past week, Rachel and I took a day trip from our home in Virginia Beach northeast to Virginia’s Eastern Shore and eventually Chincoteague Island. The trip, which encompassed about 100 miles of roads, tunnels, and bridges included time on … Continue reading A Wednesday Afternoon Daycation Trip To Chincoteague Island – Part 1, Farm Stand Surprise
Before I get to and through the next A to Z Challenge, I want to explain why I am participating. The A to Z Challenge has always been a trusted go-to for me when I cannot sleep. If I am … Continue reading A To Z Challenge 7 – A Day In The Life Of NPR
I have been playing guitar for about 20 years now. Admittedly, I am a novice player at best but I can carry a novice tune with the best of them novice guitarists. I love blues, folk, rock music and over the years I have learned how to play hundreds of easy tunes on the guitar. I can read music, from my teenage days of piano lessons. However, I love the concept of tablature or tabs to help get me playing right away. I also love the English language and challenging myself to write creative posts. I was thinking about the … Continue reading An 8Unassisted Music Block – 8 Guitar Chords For 8 Cords
After the busy town hall gathering, the book signing and distribution event, Big Fanny was super charged up about the mailbox baseball dilemma in the town of Hertford. On his walk back from Layden’s to the Bed and Breakfast Inn, … Continue reading The Clown House, A Mailbox Baseball Story – Chapter 3, Baseball Under the Lights
Big Fanny and Cassandra Hall had arrived in Hertford a day or two prior to the moving company arriving to close on the home and decided to settle in at a local Hertford Bed and Breakfast and unwind. Faneuil was eager to learn more about the area, the town, the small shops, the diners, and find out what he could about the clown house he was about to move into and the comments made by June Butters about its place in the annals of mailbox baseball. After unpacking, Big Fanny and Cassandra split up for the afternoon to venture out … Continue reading The Clown House, A Mailbox Baseball Story – Chapter 2, The Mailbox Baseball Dilemma
Faneuil Hall always considered himself a bit of an eccentric personality. Faneuil was named after the famous landmark by his mother, Roberta, who was discovered performing a one person act play called “Tickets, Please” on the cobblestones of Boston by famed Hollywood movie promoter Harry Shaw. Roberta went on to star in feature films in the 1940s and 1950s and brought her son Faneuil along on her various movie sets. There on the movie sets, little Fanny, as his mother would call him and he would despise, learned the arts and wonder of the movie prop business. In the early … Continue reading The Clown House – A Mailbox Baseball Story, Chapter 1: The Halls Move to Hertford
The Baseball Storyteller 