Our plans for an overnight hike Tom Faranda’s Folly: Off with Tim for a hike on the Appalachian Trail turned instead into a day hike on Sunday. We started out late, so I had already shortened the walk, but Tim was just uncomfortable about the whole thing. Joe had opted out of going ten days … Read more
There’s been a lot of publicity about Mother Teresa in the last couple of weeks, based on the publication of some of her correspondence, Mother Teresa: Come be My Light. (I’ve ordered the book from Amazon). Much of the analysis has been half-baked and ignorant. Here is a good analysis in the Evangelical publication Christianity … Read more
Last weekend we were in Boston at an Anderson family wedding, which you can read about here. Tom Faranda’s Folly: An Anderson wedding in Boston Joe and Tim were with us, and here are some pictures from the rest of our trip. This is Friday, the day we arrived, watching a street performer doing his … Read more
Tim and I are taking off for an overnight hike, starting at the NY-CT. border and going about ten miles today to the "Telephone Pioneers Shelter" where we’ll pitch our tent. And then tomorrow another 7-10 miles, depending on how we feel, along the trail. Brigid is going to drop us off and pick us … Read more
Brigid and I were fortunate enough to be invited to the wedding of Lee Anderson, the daughter of our good friends Bob and Judy Anderson (Judy gets mentioned a lot on this weblog, since she also works for with me). Here’s Lee and Tony (who works for the City of Cambridge) escaping from St. Ignatius … Read more
DEEP THOUGHTS BY MEN WHILE FISHING Two men are out ice fishing at their favourite fishing hole, just fishing quietly and drinking beer. Almost silently, so as not to scare the fish, Bob says, "I think I’m going to divorce my wife.She hasn’t spoken to me in over 2 months." Earl continues slowly sipping his … Read more
We all went up this weekend to Boston, primarily for the wedding of Lee Anderson – my friend and business associate Judy’s, oldest daughter. Had a great time (although we had to listen to constant blabbing on and on about the Boston Red Sox – sheesh. Hard to believe Red Sox fans are more obnoxious … Read more
After several postponed attempts, I finally got up Anthony’s Nose (Eck!). This is the 900 foot rise above the east end of the Bear Mountain Bridge. Here’s what it looks like from the west side of the Hudson, a few hunded yards north of the bridge. It doesn’t look like it’s 900 feet above the … Read more
This morning I received an email from Johnston about my posting here:Tom Faranda’s Folly: The New York Times plays a numbers game – and gets called on it. I appreciate him sending me the note (he also emailed other bloggers who commented on his story) and reproduce it in full. Note that if you go … Read more
Brigid and I still know plenty of people on the two Islands, and we are quite worried about the situation. Ann Althouse had a post saying "Say a prayer for Jamaica", and for her troubles got two bizarre comments saying you can’t trust anyone who believes in prayer! Althouse: Jamaica. Here is the comment … Read more