Thursday, March 20, 2025

Baseball Returns In One Week

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Tom Grieve's experience on Ted Williams: "Ted Williams was debating whether to play in the "Jimmy Fund Game" in Boston, a...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Make Your Bed!

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Ten Years on Admiral William H. McRaven (United States Navy Retired) University of Texas commencement speech (2014) still echoes in my head ...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

My Christmas Message

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Years ago I wrote this and it now seems like such a long time ago. But the events that provided the basis for this "Christmas sermon...
Monday, December 23, 2024

A Christmas Story (Remembering Al Rousso)

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This story was written a few years back but the "tradition" of shopping at the last minute continues....  My parents have been mar...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

A Christmas Manger

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My wife is a Christmas addict, the 12 step program and the long road to recovery, at least so far has failed.  Experts say to correct any di...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

A Trailer Palace Christmas

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I admit it; at one time I actually dated a girl who lived in what she loved to call her "trailer palace".  Since my idea of dating...
Friday, December 20, 2024

The Salvation Army and Christmas

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Ding, ting, ting, ding, ting, the sound echoes across the cold, wet parking lot pavement. A sound as familiar as Silent Night or Joy to the ...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Christmas Birds

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  I'm burdened with a very Audubon fascination with birds. Blessed with an abundance of feathered songbirds that flutter across my yard ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

The Christmas Box

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Years ago my father, the manager of Paine Webber’s Charlotte office had an office prankster and a running joke that started on the 1st of De...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

St. Nick and Coco

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Things have turned quiet at the Charleston City Marina. Gone are the mega yachts, those gleaming white ships made of spotless fiberglass, br...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Same Old Lang Syne

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It is the time of year that radio stations feel the need to play Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" about twice an hour. The...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Christmas Eve With Percy Craven from 2007

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If your family is like mine, Christmas begins a week before Thanksgiving and runs well past New Year’s Day.  The weeks roar by, in a calliop...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Christmas 2024

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We are rounding the corner towards another Christmas Eve.  In my family Christmas Eve is more of a celebration than Christmas Day, for it is...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Sambo's 903 Drive-In Congressman Norman Invitation

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This morning I’m sitting inside Sambo’s 903 Drive-In.  Yes, that’s the name of this business in 2024 and I swear to God Almighty I’m not mak...
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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Dr. Roger W. McIntire Columbia Maryland - A Life Well Lived

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Dr. Roger W. McIntire, my uncle passed on Saturday night he was 89. There of course will be a long and thoughtful obituary. It will likely e...
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