Author: Tom Faranda

Great! But it took seven years and that’s really not a lot of money… Rojas worked as a pediatric nurse for 18 years before she was fired in 2015, according to the report. She said she refused to comply with a new requirement that nurses be trained to help women obtain abortion drugs and refer…

PORTLAND, OR—Local atheist Marcus Blaine has been wavering in his atheism recently, wondering why good things happen at all. Marcus has found himself asking why he has it so good in what should be a cold, meaningless world that doesn't care whether he suffers or not. “How could there be no God if so many…

UPDATE: I may start using AROSE as my first word – S may be used more frequently than T in the dictionary and text. Brigid introduced wordle to me because a friend of hers is doing it. Mostly I do it on my phone and below is today's result. First time I'd gotten it on…

This is from a facebook posting sent to me by my friend Theresa. Let there be a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Ukraine. (Icon of Our Lady of Protection by Alexander Ohapkyna, Ukrainian iconographer).  

Nice short article by a woman theologian (Dr. Jamie Waters) at DePaul University. You should be able to access the whole article without being blocked. "Jesus calls us to turn the other cheek. But what does that mean in a world of corruption and injustice?" Jesus gives his followers multiple challenging commands, such as “love…

You can read more about her here – born in 480 and traditionally viewed as the foundress of the Benedictine nuns. St. Scholastica (480–542 A.D.) was born in Nursia, Italy, to a noble Roman family, along with her twin brother, the famous St. Benedict of Nursia. Their mother died in childbirth. Scholastica was dedicated to…

Actually Michael – Mick was what he went by. Gone on Saturday with metastatic cancer. Basically the first person I’d meet when I flew into Mandeville, Jamaica for my teaching job end of August, 1977. He’d arrived the day before I had, and I met him the second day I was there. Mick was from…

They'll be playing against each other – one is at Duke, the other at UNC. RALEIGH, NC (WNCN) – It’s a game that’s circled on every calendar at the start of every season. Its viewership spans from the Raleigh-Durham area to California to New York. It’s Duke vs. UNC Chapel Hill. This year it has…

Remember AOC (32 years old) is a member of Congress from a totally safe Democrat Party seat. If she wants to (and doesn't aspire to the senate or presidency) she'll be able to put forth this stuff for the next 50 years.  Also remember Winston Churchill's line: "If you aren't a socialist when you're 20,…

One of the smallest of birds – they weigh about a quarter of an ounce. Brigid recently passed this along to a couple of her poetry groups and they loved it. The book where Brigid discovered the Kinglet and notes are below the poem.