Today's new book, Paper Boy. To order today, go to howie car show.com and click on store. Live from the Yvesa Tratria Studio, it's the Grace Curly Show.

We've got to bring in a new voice, a young voice, a rising voice,

Grace Curley.

You can read Grace's work in the Boston Herald and the Spectator.

Especially Grace, Grace, stand up.

Here's the millennial with the mic, Grace Curley.

Welcome back everyone to the Grace Curley show.

I wanted to send my sincerest

condolences to the family of a loyal listener of both the Grace Curly

show and the Howie Car Show, Michael Themelis,

or as we knew him here as Zebra,

he was a frequent caller of the Grace Curly Show.

And we got to know him through those calls a little bit.

Sometimes the calls were poignant and very serious.

Other times they were funny and light-hearted. He seemed to have a great sense of humor. But what I found

pretty amazing was reading his obituary today,

it's clear that as much as we felt like we knew him,

we only had a tiny idea of a very extraordinary person and life.

And I just wanted to read a little bit here he was an advocate for

abused and neglected children he was also an advocate for women in crisis he

passionately loved his country in New Hampshire he was was a lover of truth, which he often expressed with a biting

wit. He was a regular live commentator on the Howie Car Show under the alias Zebra. Below are the first few lines to a patriotic poem he wrote in his blog page called the granite truth and I read this poem and I thought wow that's that was beautiful he said we were we were born to a land of heroes, carved in stone and forged

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