This has been done before, but never from the south approach. He had previously failed on four earlier attempts. Xia Boyu, a 70-year-old double-amputee from China, was part of the first commercial squad of climbers to reach the summit of Everest on Sunday. Boyu had waited more than 40 years for this opportunity. According to … Read more
The great writer. He was 88 and lead an amazing life. The book that most sticks with me (and I rarely read novels) is The Bonfire of the Vanities (not the movie version!) and it’s description of the NY social and financial scene in the 1980’s. Great writing – it is a timeless classic. I … Read more
From our last hike – as JM’s shoes started falling apart…
"Life must be protected and loved from conception to its natural end"
Thanks to Hallie for recommending Fahnestock Park instead of Sugarloaf. Our first hike since November when we did a short one up Turkey Hill. This was more than a mini; car door to car door it was 7.54 miles – a bit longer than I had anticipated. It was the Charcoal Burners/Cabot/Perkins/Fahnestock Trail Loop which … Read more
How many people today even know or understand what a catastrophic disaster his "thoughts" led to? Or what a sleazeball he was? Here's a good review. Below the link is the entire article – Under the Soviet Union, a Marxist state, 61 million people were killed; Stalin was responsible for 43 million of them. Under … Read more
We are buddies … And I think his new exhortation is the best thing he’s written since becoming Pope Gaudete Et Excultate (Rejoice and Be Glad
Here's how you get it. Yes some of the video is a little silly but it does show the hoops small businesses may have to go through. I'm not sure I qualify.
On NR Online. It’s a lovely story but the adoption to abortion ratio is very sad. Whatever your politics on abortion, it’s hard to look in the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, a birth mother, and an adoptive mother and see anything but courage and gratitude and love — and the life-and-death situation that Kelly … Read more
Wondering if his father is in heaven. Watch all 4 and a half minutes.