Croton K of C to honor Bill Ryder
Great choice; he's a wonderful guy. CROTON KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS TO HONOR BILL RYDER KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY THIS YEAR'S HONOREE IS LONG TIME CROTON RESIDENT, WILLIAM RYDER. January 15, 2015
Month: January 2015
Time flies: 9th anniversary of my 20 day stay in Sloan Kettering
Nine years since I checked in. I posted about this anniversary in 2008, with some additional links here – Time flies when you're having fun: Today is second anniversary of start of my twenty day stay at Sloan Kettering This was for my "high dose" chemotherapy, aiming to kill any remaining surviving cancer cells from … Read more
Fr. Barron on “The theory of Everything” movie
The movie about the early life of physicist Stepen Hawking. I've posted about Hawking a number of times and read his justly famous book which came out in 1988, A Brief History of Time. I've posted a few times about his atheism, like here. Barron has an excellent short discussion in this video, pointing out … Read more
Gagnon/Faranda hike of the month club kicks off
A relatively easy one: Turkey Mountain, noon on this Saturday. Weather forecast for that time and day: low 20’s and sunny. Contact me if you’d like to join us. Jeanne Marie and I decided to do one hike a month (at least), with each of us alternating where. JM decided on this one (a good … Read more
Biological bad luck the cause of 2/3’s of cancers
Well. I suppose that was my lymphoma.This was reported by Reuters, NBC, AOL, and a whole bunch of of other outlets. Plain old bad luck plays a major role in determining who gets cancer and who does not, according to researchers who found that two-thirds of cancer incidence of various types can be blamed on … Read more