Tom Faranda's Folly

Author: Tom Faranda

  • Another contestant for title of “Dan Quayle Lite”

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    Barak Obama has some competition for the Dan Quayle Lite award (You know, an "empty suit", or "form without content". I wish I’d thought of the title, Dan Quayle Lite. It’s certainly not original with me!). Now Hannity is an OK interviewer on the radio, but he is ohhhh, soooo repetitive. And here is an…

  • Health Update

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    Saw the hematologist, Dr. Klimek, this morning at Sloan Kettering. My white cell count is still low – although possibly marginally better then it has been. The bone marrow biopsy from four weeks ago did show some abnormal cells – "displastic" is the term. So Dr. Klimek is more concerned now, then she had been,…

  • Latest Read: Backcountry First Aid

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    Since we are aiming to do some camping and hiking this spring and summer, I have been doing some research. It’s been a very long time since I’ve done any extensive camping, beyond some car and tent camping at commercial sites and a couple of overnighters with Tim, the cub scout.  In fact my last…

  • Tim’s basketball season

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    Well, the season is coming to a close. There is loads of enthusiasm in the St. Augustine’s fourth grade boys team. There are 14 players and hardly any of them ever miss a game. This is despite lossing nine of their first ten games. Now though, the enthusiasm is paying off as they’ve won their…

  • The Washington Post on “Wage Insurance”

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    Here is a very interesting article in the Post on a little-known program that seems to have bipartisan support for expansion. Making Up for Lower Pay – washingtonpost.com When Michael Maynard’s company announced it was moving overseas, the 53-year-old machine technician from Massachusetts quickly found a job at another firm. As the sole provider for…

  • The Sublime Tim Faranda

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    Tim our fourth grader got two deficiencies at the midpoint in this marking period, in social studies and religion. Slightly odd subjects to be deficient in, but there you go. Today he came home with a religion test, where he’d gotten a 66. It was on the Ten Commandments. Here’s one of the questions, and…

  • Health update

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    Last week I saw Dr. Zeitlin, the ENT physician treating my sinusitis, and again had a complete blood count (CBC) at MSK in Sleepy Hollow. My sinus infection feels much better, but I still have a drip. Dr. Z confirmed this when she stuck that little flexible tube up my nose and had a look-see.…

  • Sign on back of a septic tank truck

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  • Chinchilla follies

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    Gloria the chinchilla continues to be a big hit around here. And why not? Small, fuzzy, lovable, and (for a rodent) pretty smart. Compared to our guinea pig Trinity, Gloria is a rocket scientist. And Joe is absolutely NUTS over her. Takes her out, carries her around, let’s her run loose in the back room…

  • Coping with breast cancer if you’re a young woman

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    The Washington Post had a feature article today on young woman dealing with breast cancer. The author is a reporter for the Post, who was diagnosed with the cancer at age 32. A long and interesting feature. My close family friend and part time assistant Amy died five years ago of breast cancer at the…