by Charles Norman | Oct 8, 2021 | Baseball
The Semi-Pro: The Baseball Life of Walter Ancker (Chapter One) Chapter 1:The Kid Flinger Walter Ancker, the star pitcher of the Tenafly, N.J., team of the North Jersey league, is the latest kid flinger to be caught in Cornelius McGillicuddy’s dragnet. Ancker,...
by Charles Norman | Aug 19, 2021 | Family
Aunt Edith’s House The old woman we called Granny was my great grandmother, and Aunt Edith was her oldest child. Edith was born in Minnesota in 1894, probably near Lower Red Lake or Leech Lake. Granny’s husband, Dr. George Davidson, was a physician with...
by Charles Norman | Aug 12, 2021 | Family
Granny The old woman we called Granny was my mother’s mother’s mother, my mom’s grandmother and my great grandmother. Granny was born in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1872. She was 91 years old when I entered the first grade and died just five months shy of 100. She had...
by Charles Norman | May 1, 2021 | Music, Song of the Day
Camilo A Secas – Un Querer del Bueno Then that same afternoon it was Florentino Ariza who saw the face of death when he received an envelope containing a strip of paper, torn from the margin of a school notebook, on which a one-line answer was written in pencil:...
by Charles Norman | Apr 24, 2021 | Features, Music
J.M. Baule – Compositor, letrista, adaptador de canciones It’s true that no translation is identical to the original. But no reading of a poem is identical to any other, even when read by the same person… The poem must move from reader to reader,...
