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
Nice little job by the Jesuit publication, with mostly interviews with young students.
The bus was cancelled, so a few of us drove down. The weather was really not a problem; started snowing after one o’clock & didn’t affect the drive back. The numbers were MUCH lower – probably 20-25,000, a quarter of the #’s for the last few years. The weather. Media coverage -. Nothing on … Read more