Tom Faranda's Folly

Great game Sunday at Armonk. Ossining led the whole game and was up 32-16 going into the last few minutes. And then Armonk scored twice and kicked the extra points (in the 5th-6th grade, if you kick the extra point it’s a two point conversion). But while Armonk scored a touchdown in the overtime, the conversion […]

JPR Williams, who went on to become a sportsmedicine surgeon. Over a 12 year period he played 55 times for Wales and eight matches forthe British Lions. Definitely the 70's -note the lamb chop sideburns. To read a bit about Williams, hit the link and scroll down. The youtube video is less than three minutes […]

Tim was one of four boys selected by his own teammates for the sixth grade Little League football All Star game. And he was the only lineman selected. I suspect that the other teams involved will also pick few lineman (lets face it; the line is not the flash place to be in football) so […]

Here’s my Martin Sheen story. A year or two before he became the President in the series, The West Wing (Prez. Barrett? Bartlett? Whatever – I never watched it) I spent a couple of hours with him in a midtown Manhattan precinct lock-up. Sheen is/was an anti-war activist and we were arrested at a planned […]

Here’s Joe yesterday afternoon, working on moving data from my laptop and office desktop computer onto a new office computer. This is the “work station” room of my office space. Note the neatly arranged files and desks … yuk, yuk, yuk.

A blonde goes into a coffee shop and notices there's       a 'peel and win' sticker on her coffee cup.                   So she peels it off and starts screaming,       'I've won a motor home!       I've won a motor home!' […]

Warren Buffet is a famed value investor, and he's been doing it successfully for five decades. Below is his oped in the NY Times from a few days ago. By the way, the richest man in America is Bill Gates. Op-Ed Contributor – Buy American. I Am. – NYTimes.com Equities will almost certainly outperform cash […]

Full disclosure – I've been a member of the K of C for almost 20 years. John Allen of NCR (National Catholic Reporter) has an interesting column on the just-released findings of a poll of Catholics and their positions on various issues, as well as political philosophy (conservative vs. moderate vs. liberal). The poll shows […]

This is a book I'm sure I never would have heard of, if I didn't know the author. Fr. David Couterier is a Capuchin priest who served as a Sunday associate in my parish for several years, before moving to Baltimore where he teaches at St. Mary's Seminary. He was outstanding in his efforts in […]