Ty Andersen is back in town for the third year in a row to continue his mission to grow the game of golf at the DiLisio Driving Range on Swampscott Road, Salem. Marking the occasion, Andersen, a Swampscott native with Marblehead ties, continues to sit on the PGA president’s Growth of the Game Council, a position he has held now for three years.

“It’s like freshwater fishing on steroids — everything’s bigger.” That’s just one way that Jared Stansfield, a Manchester resident, attorney and member of the Ipswich Fish and Game Club, describes one of his favorite activities: saltwater fly -fishing.

I cried when the New England Patriots won their first Super Bowl and I wept openly when Stephane Matteau scored the double-overtime goal that sent the New York Rangers into the Stanley Cup finals in 1994. I’ve gotten teary over movies, books and the occasional commercial, but until last weekend I had never shed a single tear over a muffin.

Men are watching cooking on television. This is not headline news as far as I know, but a slowly growing trend. Yes, guys like to cook at home. Especially if it involves fire and large, sharp knives. But more and more, men are moving the outdoor grilling habit indoors.

People are attracted to flying for different reasons. Some are free-spirited romantics who like the idea of soaring above ground, the world at their feet and the freedom to go wherever their heart leads them. 

As a young boy, pilot John Singleton indulged his fascination for flight by collecting photos of astronauts and assembling model planes.