Tom Faranda

For earning the most points for the school in the two bigest meets of the year – the CHSAA Intersectionals, and the Westchester County Championships.  

On Father’s Day as Jeanne Marie and I do a hike/walk neither of us had ever done. And the cicadas are out! Very exciting – if you’re into this sort of thing. It was a good 2 and a half hour hike, which I will post more about, but for the moment it’s all cicadas, … Read more

You cannot cross them. If you're a politician and you don't endorse third trimester abortions and abortions done by non-physicians, then they hate on you, even if you are otherwise pro-abortion. Thanks for Gerald sending me this link to the Weschester pro-abortion lobby. "And Senator Jeff Klein will have launched his own personal war on … Read more

86 years in a Cistercian monastery. she entered when she was 19. In 2011, Barajuen left the monastery for the first time in 40 years to meet retired Benedict XVI during a papal visit to Madrid. She had entered the monastery on the same day he was born.

Great tht a woman with a physical disability could win through – Miss Iowa pageant winner missing left forearm, to speak about disabilities After a grueling three-day competition, Nicole Kelly was named Miss Iowa on Saturday. The 23-year-old will go on to compete in the Miss America pageant, where she will speak about the importance … Read more

Great! Matt Birk is a Harvard graduate, six time Pro Bowl selection, has six children and his wife volunteers with a crisis pregnancy group. Retired Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk, who won a Super Bowl with the team last year, skipped the team’s visit to the White House due to President Obama’s support for Planned … Read more

To my surprise, AMC is not showing "The Longest Day" today. Here's a post I put up last year on this day. D-Day 68 years ago – "the boy on the beach" And just a few days ago – Memorial Day – I posted about my namesake, Thomas C. Faranda, who was not killed on D-Day, … Read more

I never had Mr. Larkin, but I do remember him. This was his 50th year at Stepinac. Two very nice articles about him, especially the second one, which includes a video. A church-bombing in Birmingham, Ala., killed four African-American girls. The Beatles made their first appearance on U.S. television. “My Favorite Martian” premiered on CBS. … Read more

Well, that's capitalism for you. Bill Clinton’s Half-Million Dollar Speech Is Drawing Outrage in Israel

The Catholic priest author. Dead at 85. He'd been ill for awhile – had a fall getting out of a taxi and never fully recovered. A self-described "loud-mouthed Irish priest" ("And may they carve it on my gravestone!" he once quipped), the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley rejected a conventional definition of his vocation. Yes, he … Read more