More on Solzhenitsyn

I posted about him yesterday.Tom Faranda’s Folly: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum has a wonderful tribute this morning. Excerpt below, but hit the link and read the whole brief essay – it’s only nine paragraphs. Anne Applebaum – Stronger Than the Gulag – washingtonpost.com In the week of his death, though, what stands out … Read more

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

One of my heroes. He died Sunday at the age of 89. It’s actually pretty amazing he lived as long as he did, since he developed cancer while he was in a Soviet concentration camp and received very poor treatment for it, for several years. I read his first book, One Day in the Life … Read more

Pushups continue makin’ a comeback at website “One Hundred Pushups”

I actually wrote about this back in March here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Strength training: Keep it simple – do push-ups! which also referenced this posting Tom Faranda’s Folly: First hike of the season; up Sugarloaf Mountain containing these pictures of two women (find their names by going to the link) doing pushups on top of … Read more

“Iron Mom” doing Primal Quest: A ten day ultra-ultra-triathlon

The WSJ in their Weekend Journal edition had a first-page-of-the-section story about a women, Kathy Roche-Wallace doing the ten day Primal Quest 548 mile event. Whew. Here’s a video from the Journal – they only mention the woman and her daughter, but they had two other team-mates including Kathy’s husband (she is 47 years old and … Read more

My birthday today as I hit 50 again

My rule of thumb used to be “always subtract seven years” – and that hasn’t changed. But I don’t think I can get away with that one anymore. Here I am in Oxford, England three weeks ago. Brigid took the picture as we had lunch. Today I’ll be driving Joe and friends around to get to … Read more

Joe is 15 today

Should have scanned in a picture of him as a baby, but these shots of him in England earlier this month will have to do! This duet taken by five year old cousin Lizzie! Here’s Aunt Libby, Uncle Michael and cousins – Outside of Oxford, when we were with Tom and Mabvuto Hardy Riding a motorized scooter, … Read more

My congressional candidate Kieran Lalor launches an energy solutions website

Kieran Lalor is the Republican candidate running against former rock star and current Democratic Congressman John Hall (go here for a cute picture of Hall long ago, with his band Orleans John Hall (US politician) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ). I have written about Lalor before; he is a former history teacher, Iraqi marine veteran, … Read more