Mad Scientist Visits Down Home Ranch!

OK, so Dr. Michael Harpold is not really a mad scientist, but when Annette asked what he was like I did respond with, “Think Back to the Future.” Michael is the Chief Scientific Officer of the Down Syndrome Research and Treatment Foundation.  Jerry and I met him in Kansas City at the annual convention of…

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Healing

Yesterday’s gospel reading was on the healing of Peter’s mother, who was abed with a fever when Jesus visited, and he healed her on the spot. Fr. Larry thus addressed the subject of healing, surely a perplexing one for most of us, since we all have had the experience of praying–desperately–for a loved one to…

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Home at last

So, as the Canadiens say.  (Jerry noticed that they say “so” before every utterance and he made them all self-concious by pointing this out.  On the other hand, Jerry about caused our hosts to wreck the car we were all riding in with a colorful Texas saying which shall go unrepeated here…) Our “Thinking Like…

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He’s here!

 Baby Adam in his grandmother Carolyn’s arms  For the past few days we’ve been on tenterhooks as our granddaughter Caitlin, two weeks overdue with baby Adam, was in labor. Although Caitie, a third-year med student at KU in Kansas City, is tied into the best midwifery and medical science have to offer, she…

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