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With this upcoming Sunday being Mother’s Day, I’ve received a lot of requests to rerun something that I wrote about for the anniversary of my Mom’s 84th birthday. How can I tell you about my mother? This might sound silly. But in the 1941 movie “Dumbo,” there’s a scene where the captured mother elephant, throughContinue reading “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. …”

I recently received from a cousin the census and baptismal records of our grandfather who was born in Ireland. I learned that that our grandfather lived in the same house with his father, our great grandfather, and that our great-great grandfather, too, lived with them and was listed as the head of that household atContinue reading “The Ties That Bind”

For me, Superman is and has always been America’s hero. I had an uncle who was a weight lifter. When I was 5 or so, I remember asking my mother if my uncle, John, was really Superman. She looked at me and very seriously told me that she couldn’t tell me because ‘no one wasContinue reading “Truth, Justice and the American Way”

Today, at work, I heard that a coworker’s daughter has a friend who is turning 16 and is saddened that her birthday celebration is bittersweet because no one on her ‘invite’ list has responded that they will go. I’m not sure who to blame for this. Is it the parents of the kids who haven’tContinue reading “Please, Ma…..Don’t Make Me!”

This is a difficult email to write for me. Many of you who follow my Facebook blogs know that I have written extensively on the clerical sex abuse scandals that, all too often, have been widely publicized. Most recently, I published the letter that I wrote to John Cecero SJ about his letter that identifiedContinue reading “Father Hoefner”

I have a very good young friend who is struggling with feeling lonely. A talented, attractive person who is going through what we all go through regarding finding the ‘right person’. I’ve tried to convey to her that we’ve all been there; The danger for young folks with new relationships that, sometimes, end is thatContinue reading “Spring and Young Love”

Of all the things that I have been asked to do in life, today I was honored to be asked to deliver one of this year’s commencement speeches at a local school. Seems that the school’s Headmaster, who has listened to me on Tom Sipos’s Hudson Valley Life Show, feels that I may have somethingContinue reading “Congrats and Good Luck”

“Please don’t be afraid of me”, the man said when I was seven or so and sitting on the ‘stoop’ of the building that my family and I lived in on 83rd street in Manhattan. I was terrified. He had a hard time getting the words out; his body twisted in spasms as he walkedContinue reading “PLEASE DON’T BE AFRAID OF ME”

Here are a few words and phrases that liberals use all the time that are conundrums in as much as the words themselves actually say just the opposite of what liberals mean by them. “You should be open minded.” This means you should agree with liberals and be closed to everything else. “Pro-choice.” In actualityContinue reading “LIBERAL TRANSLATIONS”

In its continuing efforts to expose what’s going on in NY State’s Family Court, the Families Civil Liberty Union continues with its summary of horrific tales of Family Court Judges. LORI CURRIER WOODS (Supreme Court, Orange County): Woe betide any parent who questions or appeals this wellspring of rage. Woods’ weapon of choice is toContinue reading “Corrupt Judges Make The Other Ten Percent Look Bad”