Tag: Grindrod

Back in March, as I do each year, I flew to Fort Myers to spend a few days with my sister Joanie and brother-in-law, John. Among our sundry activities, John and I will check out either the Minnesota Twins camp or the Boston Red Sox camp, both located in the city for some spring-training fun.

With tomorrow’s Independence Day, I got to thinking recently about all the traditions that surround summer’s grandest holiday. Of course, there’ll be many folks hoisting the flag who don’t ordinarily do that each day, a flag vastly different than the one attributed to Betsy Ross, one which had thirteen five-pointed stars arranged in a circle on a field of blue and its accompanying seven red and six white stripes.

Most of us believe in some realm beyond our mortal life, a place where we’ll measure our ethereal treasures quite differently than we do in this realm, with those pieces of paper with dead presidents. But, as long as we’re a part of this realm, people tend to have a pretty keen interest in who makes what for the work they do to keep humanity’s train on the track.

For years, many thespians have made a very good living appearing in films as character actors, playing those bit parts so vital to completing a story. Back when Westerns dominated both the small and big black-and-white screens, I’d often see the same faces filling various roles in movies and on TV shows like “The Rifleman,” and “Gunsmoke.”

On Tuesday of this week, something that means so very much to so very many, especially those who’ve donned a military uniform, will be...

On Tuesday of this week, something that means so very much to so very many, especially those who’ve donned a military uniform, will be honored. Flag Day commemorates the adoption of our country’s official banner on June 14, 1777, as so resolved by the Second Continental Congress. The holiday came about in 1916 when President Woodrow Wilson established that date officially as what it always was unofficially going back to 1777, Flag Day.

This past April, Lady Jane and I figured there really was no age limit on those who wish to participate in spring break, so...

As we are about to turn the calendar page to the month when traditionally travel becomes more frequent, I have a question for you....

Iron Eyes Cody was an American actor who I’m pretty sure many, especially guys, of my generation would recognize. The 1950s and early ‘60s...

For many of baseball’s longtime fans, so very much of the acrimony that marked the longest work stoppage in two decades has been forgotten....