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) … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
How was a cloistered nun – The Poor Clares – able to able to build a worldwide religious media operation?
UPDATE: See Father Martin’s video below, from America Media. James Martin (among other things) is a big contributor to the Jesuit magazine, America. He’s a very interesting guy, who graduated from U Penn’s Wharton School of Business – one of the premier business school’s in the country (Donald Trump also a graduate of Wharton). Anyway, … Read more
Yes, it's the same one – but I like it! The Resurrection: Four Artists What happens when an untalented barbarian like myself, is married to an artistic, creative,and talented person? I post stuff like this for Easter: Starting with Fra Angelico, around 1443. Oh, and it's now Blessed Fra Angelico El Greco, 1577. One of … Read more
Yeah that's today. I love the story the Faranda family guru, the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel, liked to tell: "No doubt the arrival of Jesus in Hell/Limbo was quite spectacular – The Harrowing of Hell – and quite terrifying for the inhabitants. Except for one man, who walks up to Jesus and says 'Tell me, … Read more
Actually more than annoying – a bit hobbling. I'd had arthroscopic surgery on that knee over 11 years ago – took out much of the torn meniscus. Not an old rugby injury – the meniscus wore out because I'm bowlegged! Early last week I suddenly developed a pretty noticeable pain in my left calf. Had … Read more