Holidays
USPS getting heat from Boxes to Boots Charity
Boxes to Boots is a Connecticut-based charity which sends ‘Care packages’ to deployed service members, and has done so for years. Under its current leader, Kirsten Gauvin, it assembled over 1800 boxes of items like toiletries, snacks – pretty sure everyone here knows what a Care package is. This year they mailed out 1139 boxes […]
Let’s have some fun! The Race is On.
and here comes Heartache… no, not that race. Apologies to George Jones (no, Sawyer Brown didn’t write it.) The race of the century is Friday at Indy. Contenders gathering for the first time in one spot for the first time in ten years, racing each other around the Brickyard for the first time EVAH! Hot […]
Belated St. Patrick’s Day piece
Ah, St. Paddy’s Day, when everyone tries to claim “green” and it has nothing to do with ecopolitics. (Except most of the folks wearing green have no Irish ancestry – Elizabeth Warren with peat bogs? and you will never hear the words ‘Saint Paddy’ in Ireland due to some peculiarities in Irish pronunciation.) But any […]
Merry Christmas Monday
I know it isn’t really Jesus’ birthday. That exact date is lost in history, I hear probably in late March or early April. But in a canny political move to attract northerners who celebrated winter festivals, Christmas became an early winter celebration. And let’s face it, when your birthday is celebrated more or less worldwide […]
Mardi Gras 2023
Happy Mardi Gras! Slightly overlapping the actual Christmas season consisting of the 12 days of Christmas, and the recognized days of Epiphany, is Carnival. It begins on January 6 and continues until Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuesday”. It’s the informal “Epiphany Season”. In ancient times, the meat had to be prepared, and preserved, for the […]
Thank you
Thanksgiving is a good day to give thanks. Here’s a few things I am thankful for…. Family – we didn’t intend to found a dynasty…we were just a coupla enlisted kids who liked each other a lot. Three kids, six grandkids, and a dozen degrees later (we’re big on education) including a daughter getting […]
The Wall at 40
The Wall. When you go to Washington, no need to say anything else. Technically it is the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, and it is unlike any other war memorial I have ever seen in any country. Designed by 21 year old Maya Lin, many were skeptical when it was first unveiled: but it has become hallowed […]
Veteran’s Day
Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 making it an annual observance, and it became a national holiday in 1938. Sixteen years later, then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation changing the name to Veterans Day to […]
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