Author: Tom Faranda

Yup the Saturday past. Out to the woods of Cold Spring and Mike and Karen. While there, Brigid chopped all this wood to help Rinerville through the winter. OK actually chopped by this guy. He’s a “Precious Petal.” Cute couple. No pictures of Karen or myself, but here is Karen’s Rock Garden/rock path which she…

From the Guardian (UK). Of course this would never happen under the Sanders socialized medicine plan. Just wait until medical professionals and institutions are reimbursed at the medicare rates and not at the rates paid by those horrible insurance companies.  Cancer Research UK estimates 115,000 people diagnosed at stage 3 or 4, hampered by chronic…

An appointment to a committee. If this isn’t hate speech, nothing is. VA GOV. APPOINTS BIGOT August 26, 2019 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s appointment of an anti-Catholic bigot to a state council on women’s issues: Gail Gordon Donegan is a local political activist. She is also a vicious…

Biden strikes again. 12 seconds long.  

Of course the blog has always been all about me – hence the name Tom Faranda’s Folly. Anyway I posted this Health Update: Knee surgery tomorrow on August 13th and did have the surgery – now nine days ago. Here’s why – look at the bow on my left leg. There was no cartilage padding…

Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, in August, 1941. Just hit the link. Unable to bear this, Fr. Kolbe stepped silently forward, took off his cap, and stood before the commandant and said, 'I am a Catholic priest. Let me take his…

UPDATE: Surgery scheduled for 11:30AM tomorrow Yup. A partial left knee replacement – the medial compartment (the inner aspect of the knee). It’s been pending for a long time – had meniscus surgery in 2004 and been taking the hyaluronic acid shots for the last two and a half years. And it helped greatly –…

One of the first documented converts, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 16. 13 On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. 14 One of those listening was…

Mostly by Brigid, the comedienne – Here is the artist …

A questionable strategy… Confronted by the infinite holiness of God, Peterson felt the guilt and shame of his sins washing over him, realizing with a sense of dread how he had rejected Christ and willfully rebelled against his Creator. But then, Peterson got an idea. He quickly began explaining to God just how bad the…