Category: Uncategorized

All right. Three quotes. Who could settle on just one? The last was not published in the Times, but stated by their editor at a lecture in England. Yup. Criticizing the NYT again. I read the Times every day, and they have some great stuff. But their editorials, op eds, and thinly veiled "news analysis"…

This is the second installment of my friend Maggie Barbieri’s murder mystery/comedy/love story series about college professor and part-time sleuth Alison Bergeron. Here is my review of the first one – Tom Faranda’s Folly: Latest Read: "Murder 101" In Extracurricular Activities there is more of just about everything; more dead mangled bodies, more suspects, more…

Anyone interested in the spiritual or interior life should read this amazing collection of letters, with commentary. I read it over the space of about a month, 15 to 20 pages, four or five days a week. I finished three months ago and decided to let it percolate around in my head before posting this.…

Here are some pix from yesterday. 6:15 in the morning and the boys are up to check out their gifts. Paintball stuff was at the fore. Tim got a new paintball gun marker and Joe a laser sight.  I received, from Joe, some “Ting.” Ting is a grapefruit drink from Jamaica which I developed a…

Great day, even though we only had my mother over for the day, having seen my brother Phil and his family last night. And my brother Jim who spent a couple of nights with us, spent today day with his two boys. More pictures tomorrow, but here’s a nice one of Tim helping my mother…

Some views of Christmas trees world-wide. Thank you Bernadette for sending me these. Rockefeller Center in NY city – Trafalgar Square. The tree is a gift from Norway – they’ve been sending a Christmas tree as a gift since 1947 as a token of thanks for Britain’s aid in World War II In Tokyo And…

Catholics only make up about 10% of the population in Great Britain.  A distinct minority. However, in terms of Church pracitise, they are now the largest. Britain has become a ‘Catholic country’ – Telegraph Last night, leading figures gave warning that the Church of England could become a minority faith and that the findings should…

Here’s some shots of Tim in his Santa outfit, as he headed to school this morning. I think he’s a dead ringer for Santa, although perhaps Santa with a tan?

Brigid’s big birthday present finally arrived (please ignore the rest of the garage!) yesterday – eight days late. Here’s what it looks like, wrapped up in it’s shipping mummy. Will unpack it over the weekend.

On Tuesday the local Gannett newspaper had a nice feature story on one of my former high school teachers, now Monsignor Thomas Shelley. the article was about his just-published history of the NY Archdiocese. It’s a good article – A new history of the Archdiocese of NY tells the Catholic story of the last 200…