Tom Faranda's Folly

Haha. Four and a half million views in four months.  

Ugh. One of the Faranda go-to places (the other being Memphis Maes). God bless and best wishes to Scott and his family and the other folks at JT. Here’s their posting on the Croton Community facebook page. After 15 years and 8 months of opening what we call our home to all of our customers … Read more

As NY State and New Jersey have legislative battles over legalizing suicide. "Pope Francis: Behind euthanasia lies mentality that values people based on efficiency" Francis said the process of secularization, “by rendering absolute the concepts of self-determination and autonomy,” has caused a growing demand for euthanasia in many countries “as an ideological affirmation of man’s … Read more

Here's a little video about chinchillas – less than two minutes.

What he said was quite interesting – which is why I've posted it.

UPDATE: Here’s some press overage (90 second video) from British media – The Telegraph. https://youtu.be/32vN9TWocJg Awesome young crowd. More to follow but here are four pictures.   Brigid took lots of pictures and video We made sure we were at the top of Constitution Ave. to get good pictures. Two hours after the head of … Read more

That's Tim from several years ago when he was at Stepinac – looks like he's got it tucked in there right. Now of course a junior at St. Thomas Aquinas College – and bigger! One of Tim's best events – actually his other event when he's not throwing the javelin. He's come back from his … Read more

The test was chosen by the physician and is considered a good determinant for any mental decline. All the questions are on one page. http://dementia.ie/images/uploads/site-images/MoCA-Test-English_7_1.pdf                         It is also been sensitively designed so that it does “not falsely label someone who is normal as being impaired”. The MoCA has been found to be useful to detect … Read more

This is really over the top. The link is here – (Human) Wasteland  – and there's a drop down box "about"  with some articles and resource information on helping the homeless in San Francisco. There is a brief article here – For those who have maintained that San Francisco is full of . . . … Read more

So by way of background reminder, Spiderman is the daughter (oops, son) of Dusty and sister of Toby. Spiderman & Toby’s father (may he rest in peace) is Chili. Once Chili departed for Chin-heaven the basic family decision was – no more baby Chins. HOWEVER, a few months ago, Brigid and Joe went back on … Read more