Farandaville (extended) has new baby

UPDATE: Stolen from my brother Phil’s facebook – Ethan, who was born five weeks ago to my nephew Paul and his wife Laura. So Father’s Day was spent meeting Ethan, who was three weeks premature. Paul Laura My brother Jim, extremely pleased Grandpa! Ethan himself – great outfit … My brother Phil got a selfie … Read more

Tim track: Stepinac MVP

Not for the first time, Tim is Stepinac track MVP. Below the plaque is Tim with his coach for all four years, Nick Mitchell. Nick did a wonderful job with Tim as well as with all the boys, including those who weren’t outstanding athletes. Coach Mitchell was always looking for the boys to get the … Read more

My weblog’s 10,000th posting

Realized over the weekend that this was coming up. Well, I started this to document my lymphoma treatment, way back in September, 2005. So about 1,000 postings a year – averaging 2-3 per day. Here are the first month's postings, a grand total of ten: September 2005 Here's the very first one on September 8th, … Read more

Tim’s graduation pix

UPDATE: Comment (in email) from Brigid’s niece June: “Tom, next time there’s a group photo – bring a milk crate to stand on…   😉 xx” I did post this graduation day, May 21st  Tim Graduated Today  with the Dad/Tim selfie I took as I gave him his diploma, but want to go on the … Read more

Why hiking beats biking

Kerry breaks leg in bike crash; ends overseas trip early Kerry decided to seek treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital because the fracture is near the site of his earlier hip surgery, Kirby said.

Daily exercise in “old age”

The article references people in their 70's and 80's. I'm not there yet. “A mortality reduction of 40% was associated with a moderate use of time (30 minutes, six days a week) irrespective of whether the activity was light or vigorous,” their study said. Among those who exercised vigorously – defined as hard training several … Read more