Category: Family stuff
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Pigs fly department: Actress at Oscars speaks out for marriage and motherhood
Wow. That’s the last Academy Award she’ll ever get! This taken entirely off Laura G’s facebook page. I never heard of Jessie Buckley until I saw Laura’s posting. Last night at the Oscars, Irish actress Jessie Buckley did something rare in Hollywood: She stood on one of the biggest stages in the world and delivered…
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Lou Holtz give a great, short, funny speech
This looks like a University Commencement speech but it doesn’t say where it is. Here’s what I posted a couple of days ago when it was announced he’d died. “I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”
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Ben Sasse: Politics Should Be More Like the Super Bowl
The Wall Street Journal has a new free online newsletter with a variety of opinion pieces. Ben Sasse is the former Republican Nebraska Senator who is terminally ill with stage four cancer, but still is functional. Former Senator Sasse announces terminal cancer. Below is his column about civility; hit the link for the full column.…
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Books I read – my 2025 list
This excludes – two exceptions below – the reading I do professionally. And it’s a shorter list than the 2024 (14 books) list, to a great extent because much of three months time was spent on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) routine – every few years – examination. (I am registered directly as an…
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Another stab in the back from Notre Dame
Not the first and no doubt won’t be the last. Quite a few years ago a professor there told me that the students were more prolife than the faculty. I know the largest Notre Dame campus club is the prolife club and Notre Dame always has a big turnout at the March for Life. Scroll…
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From Pew; An easy chart of America’s beliefs and practices
The Pew Research Firm is very reliable and thanks to EM for sending this to me – As of 2023, about 218 million of the 262 million adults in the United States said they believe in God or a universal spirit. Large numbers like these can be difficult to picture, but what if we scaled…
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Sadie celebrates Christmas!
One of our late chinchilla Rylai’s children. She is owned by a friend who sent us this.
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The Heidi game – 57 years ago
I clearly remember this game. I didn’t watch it – my family was driving somewhere and we heard the game on the radio – Heidi did not interrupt the radio feed.
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Jamaica – my stomping ground from 1977-’79 – getting hammered by the worst hurricane they’ve ever recorded.
This picture I took off the BBC channel – right off the television. Brigid and I know Treasure Beach very well. It is on the non-touristy south coast and it’s where we spent our so-called honeymoon (with my parents and youngest brother Phil – and Brigid’s dog Feisty…!) after our wedding in the town of…