Neil Durso

Teachers. Mom. Relationships.

I’m not sure any profession is worse about bringing their work home with them than teachers are:-)

Good! I don’t know the guy. Nothing to do with his personal worth. Sorry fellow fans & fellow alum. Obvious he had to go. PSU’s history makes it obvious: PSU wants to like their coach more than they want to be excellent enough to win. Also true at ND since I was there with Holtz. Continue reading “Penn State fires coach”

Catholic is not my identity. Nor ANYone’s

You, my friend, are – before and above anything else – beloved. Which, to me, is apocalyptic.

Are people really doing the best they can do?

The ego can’t abide the mystery in, “I don’t know. I really don’t.”

We are forgiven because we are first loved (1)

“although he knew he was a great sinner, he also knew that Jesus loved him completely, as he was”

The Pennsylvania Canal in Pittsburg

I offer here slight clarification to “The Pennsylvania Canal” paragraph of Kathryn Bashaar’s awesome “Lost Pittsburgh Neighborhoods: Bayardstown” [http://www.kathrynbashaar.com/2019/05/lost-pittsburgh-neighborhoods-bayardstown/] Great, great stuff, Kathryn! The research is very hard work; thank you for that. Re the canal, I think it’s best to consider it having 3 termini around Pgh – one into The Allegheny, a 2ndContinue reading “The Pennsylvania Canal in Pittsburg”