Author: Tom Faranda

Great game Sunday at Armonk. Ossining led the whole game and was up 32-16 going into the last few minutes. And then Armonk scored twice and kicked the extra points (in the 5th-6th grade, if you kick the extra point it’s a two point conversion). But while Armonk scored a touchdown in the overtime, the conversion…

JPR Williams, who went on to become a sportsmedicine surgeon. Over a 12 year period he played 55 times for Wales and eight matches forthe British Lions. Definitely the 70's -note the lamb chop sideburns. To read a bit about Williams, hit the link and scroll down. The youtube video is less than three minutes…

Tim was one of four boys selected by his own teammates for the sixth grade Little League football All Star game. And he was the only lineman selected. I suspect that the other teams involved will also pick few lineman (lets face it; the line is not the flash place to be in football) so…

Here’s my Martin Sheen story. A year or two before he became the President in the series, The West Wing (Prez. Barrett? Bartlett? Whatever – I never watched it) I spent a couple of hours with him in a midtown Manhattan precinct lock-up. Sheen is/was an anti-war activist and we were arrested at a planned…

Here’s Joe yesterday afternoon, working on moving data from my laptop and office desktop computer onto a new office computer. This is the “work station” room of my office space. Note the neatly arranged files and desks … yuk, yuk, yuk.

A blonde goes into a coffee shop and notices there's       a 'peel and win' sticker on her coffee cup.                   So she peels it off and starts screaming,       'I've won a motor home!       I've won a motor home!'…

Warren Buffet is a famed value investor, and he's been doing it successfully for five decades. Below is his oped in the NY Times from a few days ago. By the way, the richest man in America is Bill Gates. Op-Ed Contributor – Buy American. I Am. – NYTimes.com Equities will almost certainly outperform cash…

Full disclosure – I've been a member of the K of C for almost 20 years. John Allen of NCR (National Catholic Reporter) has an interesting column on the just-released findings of a poll of Catholics and their positions on various issues, as well as political philosophy (conservative vs. moderate vs. liberal). The poll shows…

This is a book I'm sure I never would have heard of, if I didn't know the author. Fr. David Couterier is a Capuchin priest who served as a Sunday associate in my parish for several years, before moving to Baltimore where he teaches at St. Mary's Seminary. He was outstanding in his efforts in…

See my posting from Friday here – Tom Faranda's Folly: The financial panic – my musings and also this where I quote money manager Ken Heebner. Tom Faranda's Folly: A savvy prediction by a money manager: "You're going to see the biggest short term rally in my lifetime" Kenneth Fisher runs the biggest investment advisory firm in…