No, I did not watch Obama's speech

September 9, 2009 By

Derek Jeter started the game needing three hits to tie Lou Gehrig’s record of hits-as-a-Yankee. He got the three hits during the game (and he was a class act as he did it), plus he got his 300th stolen base, and then Jorge Posada hit a splendid three-run homer to top it all off. I [...]

Filed Under: Barack Obama, Baseball

Back to work tomorrow…

July 14, 2009 By

Sorry for the silence. The afternoon was spent with doctors and radiologists, and tomorrow we find out whether Buster has a hernia. I got to do some reading as I sat around waiting or keeping Buster company, but it was very disheartening to learn that blaring televisions broadcasting insipid game shows and screeching talkfests are [...]

Filed Under: Baseball, Buster, Medical, TV/Pop Culture/Music

It's amazing what 3 years does!

June 20, 2009 By

Three years ago, I was the fun Auntie who got called up and invited to mass, and told to bring bagels. Now…kids! They never call; they don’t write. They don’t need help with homework. Of course they don’t need help with homework. They know everything! A look wistful look back, first published in 2006. FUTURE [...]

Filed Under: Baseball

Hobbit Houses, Worship, Misogynists & more

June 9, 2009 By

I’m finding it very difficult to concentrate with a houseful today, so here are some quick-and-unrelated things you may have missed – stick with it, I know there are some things below which will inspire you: “Prime Minister, how much more clearly do we have to speak, before you understand us?” Wait for the reading [...]

Filed Under: 'Remaking' America, 9/10 Mindset, American Genius, Baseball, Catholicism, Christians in Exile, Crisis & Opportunity, Culture of Life/Death, Economic woe, Faith, Freedom of Worship, Socialism doesn't work

Did Obama check his bow to Abdullah? – UPDATES!

April 2, 2009 By

Let me say right off the bat, I have never thought, as apparently many still do, that Barack Obama was a Muslim. Obama said he was a Christian, and – although it is difficult to believe he sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years and never heard him utter racist or anti-American sentiments – [...]

Filed Under: 'Remaking' America, American Genius, Barack Obama, Baseball, Bush Good, Crooks and Liars, Dumb Democrat moves, Michelle Obama, Socialism doesn't work, The Fourth Estate

Bullock, Baseball, Limbaugh

March 28, 2009 By

You ever have one of those dreams that’s so delicious and fun that you hate to wake up, and when you do, you think to yourself, “wow, that was GREAT! I want to finish that dream! I want to videotape that dream, so I can dream it again!” I had such a dream – just [...]

Filed Under: America, Baseball, Limbaugh, The Fourth Estate, TV/Pop Culture/Music

Timothy Dolan for NY – UPDATED

February 24, 2009 By

An Epistle in a Picture, (H/T) And so, at the close of the rather distant and disappointing tenure of Cardinal Edward Egan, New York finally gets an Archbishop who might be called the “worthy successor” to the Mighty John Joseph O’ Connor, one Timothy Michael Dolan of Milwaukee I love this quote, highlighted by Deacon [...]

Filed Under: Baseball, Benedict XVI, Catholic Vocations, Catholicism, Culture of Life/Death, Faith, Timothy Dolan