Here’s a couple of good features on fitness training and coping with injuries

both of these articles are from the NY Times health and finess section in the last week. The first one is by NYT reporter Gina Kolata, writing about her preparation for the NY Marathon, as she struggles with a stress fracture.   Coping (or Not) With Injuries in Training for Marathon – NYTimes.com And this … Read more

Tim’s latest football

His team defeated Ardsley, 22-0. Tim played very well – he is really consistent. His number is 77 – they accidentally sewed his name onto 77, rather then 70, so that settled that.   And one more

Third anniversary of my brother Paul’s death

At 47. After leading a “noble life” (my brother Jim’s phrase) filled with illness. Here’s the posting I put up about him a few days after he died. I had just started my chemotherapy a few days earlier. Tom Faranda’s Folly: Paul Faranda, 1958-2005 And here’s a picture I’ve posted before, of Paul with Brigid and I … Read more

Breast cancer: Shorter radiation works as well as longer radiation for some

From the NY Times health section: Shorter Radiation for Cancer of the Breast – NYTimes.com Three weeks of radiation treatment work just as well as the usual course of five weeks or more for women with early-stage breast cancers, Canadian researchers have reported, after monitoring a large group of patients for 12 years. The results, … Read more

Tim’s latest football

Well, after leading 14-0, they lost to Bronxivlle 24-22. It turns out that if you get up by two touchdowns, you have to substitute out your first stringers, which I suppose makes sense at the 5th/6th grade level. So they are now 1-1. Ossining really has a good program – they run three teams at the … Read more

Latest Read: Render Unto Caesar

One of the more outspoken - and sensible – Bishops in the U.S. today is Charles Chaput, the Capuchin Francisican Archbishop of Denver. One can only hope that when Cardinal Egan retires from the New York Archdiocese that the Pope will move Chaput to New York. In any event Archbishop Chaput has a timely and excellent … Read more