Bob Grady Stories

Education and Jobs

How would you like to be graduating from college and looking for a job in today's market? Pretty sca . . .

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Change

Change.
I would not want to be looking for a job in this economy. My daughter, who has just reache . . .

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1968 and Me

The year 1968 saw many horrendous events take place. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were . . .

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40s Music

I went to high school from 1946 to 1950 at Sacred Heart, a converted elementary Catholic school loca . . .

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A Modest Proposal

With apologies to Jonathan Swift, I suggest the following modest proposal. There are many people who . . .

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MILLIE

I must have been nine or ten at the time of this incident but it has remained a vivid picture in my . . .

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Coincidence

Coincidence? The sixties for me was a time of stabilizing my personal life. In 1960, I was twenty-ei . . .

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The Color Green


My ancestors are mostly Irish. The color green seems to be associated with Ireland-especially aro . . .

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World Changing Events in MY Childhood

I was nine that December day in 1941. I had been playing in the yard at 11 Gates Avenue in Waterbury . . .

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Reflections

There are some questions I would like to pose. They concern situations like the Boston Marathon, San . . .

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Bull Fight

It was April, 1971, and I was in Madrid, Spain, with a group of teachers visiting on Spring Break. A . . .

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