Tom Faranda's Folly

Nice rememberance and funny little vignette by Kelly at the end.  

Here are the intrepid, bundled up Midnight Runners brought in food and clothes. This is the Citicorp building stop where there were about 30 people, who were sheltering in St. Peter’s ELCA Church, which is right behind them. The young lady on the right evidently didn’t get the “wear brown” memo.

A big loss. The sharpest mind on the Supreme Court and who believed that laws should be passed by legislative process, not come down from the Supreme Court, or the President. He was also the first Italian-American on the Court.  

In Cuba, of all places. Not unity, but it really is a pretty big deal.

Here’s the last hike in 2015, and first in 2016. Both relatively easy. Decided to post a little video this time, instead of photos. December 27th was Manitoga Preserve – not too strenuous, except we got lost a might misdirected when  I we missed a cairn and blazes for a left hand turn. Walked north … Read more

The most recent conspiracy theories – I came across this while reading the America magazine website – and America is the USA Jesuit publication. Jim McDermott SJ, had a column there entitled Trump, Clinton, My Jesuit Illuminati Overlords and the Iowa Caucus where he describes doing a google search about Trump and put the following … Read more

St. Brigid of Ireland, sometimes referred to as St. Brigit of Kildare. See the resemblance?

YIKES! Pro skier Angel Collinson was shooting a documentary in Alaska’s Neacola range in April 2015 when she tumbled and fell 1,000 feet down the snow-covered mountain, amazingly surviving the fall.