Author: Tom Faranda

This short book is sub-titled "Meditations Upon Returning". It is written by former Lutheran minister now Catholic convert-priest Richard John Neuhaus. Neuhaus is the editor of the interfaith Journal First Things, and a prolific author and commentator. I read it during Lent. Neuhaus spends the first part of the book musing on life and death,…

At last (for Tim), after six weeks his cast is off. Dr. Purcell cut it off today (three hours late) and we celebrated with alaskan king crab for supper. And tomorrow Tim gets new shoes (part of the deal.) Here’s the foot, the cast, and the crab dinner (it was excellent!). Here’s the “back” part…

Heeeere’s Dave (and Sue)!!  This was in the Westchester daily paper, The Journal News – Catholic radio brings church to new medium The channel would try to appeal to devout Catholics, lapsed Catholics, non-Catholics and maybe even a few closet Catholics who subscribed to Sirius so they could listen to Howard Stern. "You won’t find…

My mother Jeanne turned 81 yesterday. Phil and Jim both visited her over the weekend and she came to our house for her birthday. Here she is with two of her eight grandchildren. At the beginning of June she’ll be going to her 60th college reunion at Mt. St. Vincent’s, with her roommate Dolores Cammarata,…

Around 10:20 I’ll be on Sirius satellite radio, channel 159. That’s the Catholic channel – Sue and Dave Konig’s show – and I’ll be interviewed along with a woman comedienne who has breast cancer. The topic is coping with cancer, the role of faith, stuff like that. If you go tothe Sirius website you can…

Two casino dealers are waiting at the crap table. A very attractive blonde woman from South Alabama arrived and bet twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) on a single roll of the dice. She said, "I hope you don’t mind, but I feel much luckier when I play topless." With that, she stripped to the waist; rolled…

This looks like fun. Top News- New York Duo Sets Sail on 1,000-Day Cruise – AOL News The sailor, Reid Stowe is 55 years old. He and his 23 year old girlfriend plan on going around the world three times, without ever making a port of call. They set out yesterday from NY harbor. Here’s…