Just did it this evening. Not bad for a boy who just turned 15 and coming off his knee injury. It’s a landmark, because 225 means two big (45 Lb) discs at each end of the bar (the bar itself weighs 45). Four days ago Tim was bugging me to go for a PB, when … Read more
So Christopher is gone, hopefully sitting in Purgatory, trying to figure out where he went wrong. Yes, cigarettes are bad for you; dead at 62 from esophogeal cancer. I have posted about Hitchens before, since he is a clever writer and a militant atheist (but if he's so smart, why did he smoke himself to … Read more
Current research to determine if there is a Higgs Boson has been much in the news the last several days, and I always enjoy this sort of speculation – From Washington Post op ed writer Michael Gerson The search for the God particle goes beyond mere physics … But why should a mathematical equation — … Read more
Yesterday was ten weeks post-op for Tim, and we saw the surgeon Dr. Weinstein. He examed Tim, saw what the physiotherapist had to say, and was quite pleased. He told Tim "you're 95% there". He still has some relative leg weakness compared to the left leg, especially the gluteal (technical way of saying his butt). Dr. Weinstein said … Read more
December 12th is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe AND of course Brigid’s birthday. Having looked back over the past several years on Tim’s birthday three days ago, here are a few Brigid pix going back to 2005 My all-time favorite picture, taken at Dunn’s River Falls in Jamaica, in April, 2005. And here’s … Read more
A liberal? Yes, but with an asterick. A conservative? Yes, but with an asterick. But never mind what I think, here's what Boston College author and philosophy teacher Peter Kreeft thinks. In the Spirit: Can a Catholic also be a liberal? "To be a Catholic is to take the whole deal," he told the crowd.
Here’s a little something he wrote when he was four years old and attending Circle School. My Mom is white. She likes to play outside with me. She’s good at vacuuming. I don’t know what she does when I’m at school. She never tells me what she does. I think she vacuums. She makes me … Read more
Caleb Gilligan-Evans who Tim knows from football, and from Tim's doing the Stepinac summer program. From the Journal News – Football: Stepinac's Gilligan-Evans commits to Yale "We knew from the first day we met Caleb that he was a special kid," O'Donnell said. "He was mature and he was smart. He has always done everything … Read more
Here's a short review from the Washington Post which I – being mostly lefthanded – enjoyed. I especially liked the first sentence. The Puzzle of Left-handedness Let’s get one thing straight: It’s not weird that 10 percent of the human population is left-handed. It’s weird that 90 percent is right-handed. In all other animals that … Read more
Pretty good going! NY State football AA -A rankings And state-wide Croton was ranked #3 in B division, with Dobbs Ferry #1 in the C division. NY State football rankings B-C-D