Day: January 23, 2022

Don’t travel across international borders unless it is absolutely necessary. Staying home is the wisest advice I can give after my experience. I wasn’t inclined to leave home last July. But after two years being cocooned, my wife was eager to visit our daughters in the US. My youngest daughter had a baby in the middle of the pandemic. The baby boy was born premature and it was not an easy first few months for the new mother. The lola was eager to be there and help out. So I reluctantly agreed to go. We planned to stay six months. My son in Singapore said he would join us in December for a fami… Continue reading “Travel in the time of COVID”

Catholic Schools Week begins next Sunday. Special programs are held at each school. Some invite accomplished alums to come back and speak to students, usually nurses, doctors, lawyers, accountants — the typical professions. But how many schools in Hudson County could invite back famous and accomplished actors? Evidently, quite a few. Jersey City’s Nathan Lane graduated from St. Peter’s Prep in 1974 and through the years has given back. When Prep mounted “Guys and Dolls” — a play he performed on Broadway — Lane donated the lighting and returned to see the performance, said Kate Lillis-Magnus… Continue reading “Seeing ‘stars’ for Catholic Schools Week | Faith Matters”