Has been caught. This story WFTV.com – News – Record Hammerhead Shark Was Pregnant immediately reminded me of my (true) hammerhead story. Brigid and I were on a north coast of Grand Cayman (shortly before we left the island, in 1981) diving in 95 feet of water with Bob Osterwyk, Paul Sleep, and a lady … Read more
Tomorrow, Thursday, late in the afternoon, I will be seeing Dr. Zelenetz for the first time since I was "returned" to him by the transplant unit. Here’s hoping my white blood cell count is headed toward normal and everything checks out well. I do feel fine!
This book was published in 2003. The author is Stephen Barr, a physicist at the University of Delaware, who has written widely on the confluence of religious belief with modern scientific insights, especially from quantum mechanics and relativity theory. I finished reading this book on the fourth of July, and Barr is very good. It … Read more
Here is a really interesting interview with Professor Robert George of Princeton University, published in the leading evangelical magazine, Christianity Today.The Phone Book Test – Christianity Today Magazine What’s your reading of our culture right now?I’ve argued in my book The Clash of Orthodoxies that the contemporary moment is marked by profound cultural division. We … Read more
My father spent WW II in New Guinea and the Philippines, while my uncle (at 18 years old) served on an aircraft carrier. As a bonus my Dad also got re-called for the Korean War, spending 18 months there. He didn’t see me until I was over a year old. The following was posted on … Read more
At the beginning of the summer my Uncle Bud (real name Anthony, but everyone calls him Bud or Buddy) and Aunt Ardis, along with my cousin Dorothy (Dorie) and her husband Keith, throw a big bash on their property in Gaylordsville, CT. Gaylordsville is about 35 minutes north of Danbury, just off Rte 7. This … Read more
My friend Ellen Mullin forwarded this to me: Joe walked into a sports bar around 9:58 PM. He sat down next to a blonde, Beth, at the bar and stared up at the TV. The 10:00 PM news was coming on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on a ledge of … Read more
The boys started their summer programs today. Joe is in a five week program at Fordham Prep called the HAP, or High Achievement Program. I went down for the orientation this morning with him and it looks pretty interesting. In the morning they’re doing reading, math and language arts, and in the afternoon a variety … Read more
Brigid and I were married 27 years ago yesterday, in the town of Mandeville, Jamaica, where we both were working as teachers.
By coincidence, our best man, Mick Paine (see joke just below), called yesterday just to catch up.
Our whole wedding, honeymoon thing was pretty funny. I asked Brigid to marry me right after the Easter break, she said "I’d be delighted", and we were married less than eight week later.
For the whole story, click on the link just below.
My friend Mick Paine related this story to me today. A gentleman goes into his neighborhood pharmacy and says to the pharmacist: "I’d like some arsenic please." The pharmacist says: "Arsenic – that’s a very dangerous medication. Do you have a prescription for it from your doctor?" the gentleman replies: "No I don’t, will a … Read more