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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

Haven’t done one of these in awhile. But two things came up yesterday – 1) A major American scientific group admitted there was no consensus in scientific circles on the cause of global warming: DailyTech – Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists,…

 The Dent family has occupied 87 Stockton Lane in York, England for 56 years. Currently only Brigids sister Kate is there, as Brigid’s Mother died four years ago at age 91. I love York and have fond memories of my visits there, going all the way back to the summer of 1978, when I was…

There are 12 or 13 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. most of the upstanding, hardworking  people. I agree we have to control our borders, but the answer isn’t mass arrests. On Religion – Immigrants Find Solace After Storm of Arrests – NYTimes.com Then came the morning of May 12, when both satisfaction and retirement ended…

The last night we were at Brigid’s sister’s house in York – last Wednesday – we took Kate to dinner at an Italian place, “Luigi’s Restaurant.” Here’s a medley of pix of the two sisters, as they look at pictures, order from the menu, eat (and drink) – St. Francis rules at “Luigi’s”

This is off ZENIT, a Catholic news service. The Archbishop is leaving the Archdiocese of St. Louis to assume the role of the new prefect of the Apostolic Signature, the Church’s supreme court, based in Rome. Archbishop Burke Disciplines Sister of Charity She Participated in Attempted Ordination of Women ST. LOUIS, Missouri, JUNE 27, 2008…