Author: Tom Faranda

Yesterday was ten weeks post-op for Tim, and we saw the surgeon Dr. Weinstein. He examed Tim, saw what the physiotherapist had to say, and was quite pleased. He told Tim "you're 95% there". He still has some relative leg weakness compared to the left leg, especially the gluteal (technical way of saying his butt). Dr. Weinstein said…

December 12th is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe AND of course Brigid’s birthday. Having looked back over the past several years on Tim’s birthday three days ago, here are a few Brigid pix going back to 2005 My all-time favorite picture, taken at Dunn’s River Falls in Jamaica, in April, 2005. And here’s…

A liberal? Yes, but with an asterick. A conservative? Yes, but with an asterick. But never mind what I think, here's what Boston College author and philosophy teacher Peter Kreeft thinks. In the Spirit: Can a Catholic also be a liberal? "To be a Catholic is to take the whole deal," he told the crowd.

Here’s a little something he wrote when he was four years old and attending Circle School. My Mom is white. She likes to play outside with me. She’s good at vacuuming. I don’t know what she does when I’m at school. She never tells me what she does. I think she vacuums. She makes me…

Caleb Gilligan-Evans who Tim knows from football, and from Tim's doing the Stepinac summer program. From the Journal News – Football: Stepinac's Gilligan-Evans commits to Yale "We knew from the first day we met Caleb that he was a special kid," O'Donnell said. "He was mature and he was smart. He has always done everything…

Here's a short review from the Washington Post which I – being mostly lefthanded – enjoyed. I especially liked the first sentence. The Puzzle of Left-handedness Let’s get one thing straight: It’s not weird that 10 percent of the human population is left-handed. It’s weird that 90 percent is right-handed. In all other animals that…

Pretty good going! NY State football AA -A rankings And state-wide Croton was ranked #3 in B division, with Dobbs Ferry #1 in the C division. NY State football rankings B-C-D

Physical Education is the sixth in the series of detective-comedy-mystery-romances stories revolving around university prof Alison Bergeron. The series is authored by my friend Maggie Barbieri. And the first book I've read on my new Kindle Fire reader/tablet (Had the KF for a week and I love it). I've read and reviewed all of Maggie's…

The NY Times columnist. He wrote on their op ed page until 1991. Tom Wicker, Journalist and Observer He was a liberal with a capital L. A great writer, who stated his positions rationally and with fairness, especially  compared to the dodos the Times has had since then (Collins, Rich, Herbert, Brooks, et al). In 1990,…

Tim and I went to the game – the last one of the season. This was the 41st Turkey bowl between Stepinac and White Plains and White Plains is way ahead in the series, 27-14. But Stepinac has now won five of the last six games. You can read about the game at the link…