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Very apropos, since yesterday we went on a quick hike on the Turkey Hill loop. From my friend Theresa – and see picture at bottom of two brainy hikers! Doctors Explain How Hiking Actually Changes Our Brains Aside from the almost instant feeling of calm and contentment that accompanies time outdoors, hiking in nature can…

Yes, in fact everyone in our house had pokemon-derived names! (momazoid, etc).  

Here's a link – Amoris Laetitia I look forward to reading the document when it is an ebook. in the meantime, here's a short balanced analysis – Bill Donohue comments on Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation, "The Joy of Love." To read it click here. Here's the first part of Donohue's note – Pope Francis' apostolic…

She said it on Meet the Press, at minute 1:20 here – Mrs. Clinton on abortion This causes Planned Parenthood great agina. Planned Parenthood Exec Slams Hillary Clinton For Calling A ‘Fetus’ An ‘Unborn Child’    

Good article in the Telegraph (UK). A terrible situation for all. “China’s Catholics: ‘Rome may betray us, but I won’t join a Church which is controlled by the Communist Party’ “ Father Dong Baolu’s flock were gathered outdoors beside a row of foul-smelling lavatories. They had no choice but to worship in this furtive way,…

Current plan is for Brigid and Joe to Travel with my brother Jim and his wife Maria to Machu Picchu this summer. Maria is from Peru so they'll be visiting her family as well as the very famous Inca site.  This video is from the Telegraph (UK)

The stairs win. From the NY Times "Well" Q & A … if you want to get picky about which is healthier, go for the stairs In fact, according to recent estimations, slowly climbing stairs demands almost twice as much energy per minute as does walking along a flat surface at an everyday (not brisk)…

Where we’ve spent many an Easter Day. Four of six Gagnons + daughter-in-Law Ellen + three of four Farandas + other Gagnon family friends. Dinner always begins this way – Before dinner there was the big Easter Egg hunt – here are the contestants – and Joe actually won! He found 12 of the 48…

This is astonishing – and sad. In the Washington Post. For years, Brussels has been the epicenter for European outrage over the CIA’s terrorist interrogation program. Now it is Belgium that has some explaining to do for its failure to effectively interrogate a high-value terrorist — an interrogation that may have foiled last week’s deadly…

Here’s an op ed piece from the Wall Street Journal, by Professor (Emeritus) at Notre Dame, George Marsden. Mere Christianity (link to wiki article) is a great book – I read it decades ago. ‘Mere Christianity’ Still Gets a Global Amen. Since 2001, C.S. Lewis’s book has sold 3.5 million copies in English alone. During…