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There are some excellent arguments for ending the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. And there are some lousy ones. Also worth pondering is the experience of countries in which gays and lesbians serve openly. Britain and Canada are often cited as cases in point, though the deteriorating overall capabilities of their armed forces do…

NOTE: If you don’t know what this is about, just go here Nine months later, and the charges still haven’t been dismissed. Ridiculous. If it actually goes to court, imagine how stupid the President of ND, Fr. Jenkins, is going to look! Anyway, here’s Johnny.

My friend Maggie Barbieri has the fourth in her romance-humor-mystery series, featuring college professor Alison Bergeron. You can find my reviews of Maggie's first three books in the series here and they're also on the amazon website in slightly edited form.   Our heroine Alison ends up having to spend a few weeks living on campus in a dorm as…

This picture was taken by our good friend Laurie Hurley. the March was amazing – a huge, young, crowd. More pictures to follow in a day or two.  

Farandas lived a year in Bodden town and then a year in George Town – 1979-1981. It was right after we got married in Jamaica. 5.8 on the richter scale. Tuesday's quake struck about 32 miles (52 kilometers) east-southeast of Bodden Town in the center of the southern coast of Grand Cayman Island. 

Tim is a pretty decent player, even though it’s really not his main sport (baseball and football are). Yesterday his team, the St. Augustine’s 7th grade team, played two games. They won the first in overtime – I didn’t see it, but Brigid did – and Tim played very well, with seven points in their…

Yup. Hard to believe. Here's what it looked like – Brigid took the picture. After all the chemotherapy, the actual return of my own stem cells was kind of anti-climactic. Like getting a blood transfusion. Transplant went well

From the Catholic news services ZENIT.org. In 1980 I attended the Christmas Vigil Mass at the Port au Prince Cathedral – now completely destroyed Archbishop: Church "On the Scene" in Haiti US, Irish Prelates Send Appeal for Aid ROME, JAN. 15, 2010 (Zenit.org).- When an earthquake destroyed the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, Catholic Relief…

On Thursday afternoon, while wandering around Croton Point – up top, near where they fly the model airplanes and the boy scouts camp out – Brigid spotted this guy (girl?) and Tim (not Tom) took the pictures. Here, trying to look big and ferocious as Tim approached That didn’t work, so off to the trees in…

Amazing. Honestly, it doesn't seem that long ago. That day I put up three posts, one a book review, "The Power of Intention" as well as  Thanks to one and all for the prayers and good wishes! and  this one First day at Sloan Kettering . Glad I'm still here to post this …