A big loss. The sharpest mind on the Supreme Court and who believed that laws should be passed by legislative process, not come down from the Supreme Court, or the President. He was also the first Italian-American on the Court.
In Cuba, of all places. Not unity, but it really is a pretty big deal.
Here’s the last hike in 2015, and first in 2016. Both relatively easy. Decided to post a little video this time, instead of photos. December 27th was Manitoga Preserve – not too strenuous, except we got lost a might misdirected when I we missed a cairn and blazes for a left hand turn. Walked north … Read more
The most recent conspiracy theories – I came across this while reading the America magazine website – and America is the USA Jesuit publication. Jim McDermott SJ, had a column there entitled Trump, Clinton, My Jesuit Illuminati Overlords and the Iowa Caucus where he describes doing a google search about Trump and put the following … Read more
So, seems to have gone well. Done at Hudson Valley Hospital, which is also where I had my knee surgery 11 years ago. Have to put in a variety of drops in my right eye for the next several weeks, including one that goes for six weeks. and right now my pupil is still dilated. … Read more
St. Brigid of Ireland, sometimes referred to as St. Brigit of Kildare. See the resemblance?
YIKES! Pro skier Angel Collinson was shooting a documentary in Alaska’s Neacola range in April 2015 when she tumbled and fell 1,000 feet down the snow-covered mountain, amazingly surviving the fall.
Oh dear. The patriarch of our chinchilla family is gone. Brigid found him around 5 pm yesterday at the bottom of his cage. She called me quite upset, and I came back from my office and had to tell Joe, who was taking a nap. We don’t know what happened. We got him about 6 … Read more
Stuck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, students from Nebraska and Iowa who’d traveled to DC for the March for life – whole story at the the link. At about 9:30 p.m. Friday, the buses lurched to a stop at mile marker 133, and the group had to become comfortable for awhile — because there they stayed … Read more