Good article – How the Democrats handed Trump the working class

Off Marketwatch.com (a business website & mostly Hillary supporter). Globalization and the loss of jobs in America. The story of Trump’s amazingly successful movement is also the story of how Democrats turned their backs on their working-class roots and sided with the elites on the crucial economic question of our times: Who would win from … Read more

My brother Paul; 11th anniversary of losing him

Phil (brother #4) posted this picture of Tom, Jim and Paul (Phil hadn’t arrived yet …). Must have been when I was in the 7th or eighth grade. I have no recollection of this picture and certainly no recollection of Paul’s Commodore outfit. He’d have been five or six years old. Paul died at the … Read more

Tim – back at college

Since Tim needed two cars to get his stuff back, I went over with him to St. Thomas Aquinas College – it’s only a 35 minute ride. I was only there about half an hour. Picking up his keys outside the dorm – And here’s Tim and Joe at Memphis Mae’s where we went for … Read more

Mother Teresa canonization tomorrow – here’s the miracle

UPDATE: Suggestion from the Catholic League – “The Catholic League urges everyone to wear Blue and White on Sunday in honor of Mother Teresa’s canonization.” “ In Mother Teresa’s case, a woman in India whose stomach tumor disappeared and a man in Brazil with brain abscesses who awoke from a coma both credited their dramatic … Read more

Pole position! Brigid and Joe at Machu Picchu

In Peru, at the famous site two days ago – actually Joe took the picture – that’s Brigid on the left and my brother Jim’s wife Maria on the right. In the middle, Nancy and Arthur, two friend’s of Jim. Brigid and Joe get back next Tuesday from their 12 day trip.

Joe and Brigid – off to Peru!

Yesterday they drove to Washington DC to meet up with my brother Jim and his wife Maria – who is from Peru. They fly out today to Lima and also going to Cusco and Machu Picchu. Both very excited about the trip as well they should be. Tom and Tim not so fortunate – we … Read more