Pilgrim Tales is an anthology of Catholic fiction put together by the Catholic Writers Guild and published in December, 2025. The theme of pilgrimage ties the stories together. https://a.co/d/09qgScNy The Voyage of Life: Manhood. Thomas Cole, American, 1842 These fifteen stories are so different from each other that sitting down and reading the whole book [...]
I thought Wyoming was a western state…
Wyoming, Pennsylvania is a borough that state, north of Wilkes-Barre. Wyoming state was actually named after this green and lovely valley though the guy who proposed the name eventually Saw Wyoming and wasn't sure he got it right. The way I stumbled on this silliness was seeing this picture through the National Gallery of Art. [...]
Been a little busy…
I've written a fair amount this week but I've also had a few projects going... The potholder loom has been a more interesting project than I expected. That is, I expected to make potholders. I've ended up doing a lot of color experimentation because the loops I use have come in packages with highly random [...]
Happy Birthday, Mom 1918 — 2004
Martha Sylvia was born on March 3, 1918 in Chicago. She was the daughter of Swedish immigrants, and grew up during the Depression, in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. I always thought the name Sylvia was absolutely lovely, and she always hated it. She said she didn't know where her mom got it from. Martha put herself [...]
What exactly is science???
There’s an idea floating around that science is all about experiments, in fact, that without experiments, there is no science. Certainly, experimentation is right up there, at the highest level of science, but there are whole branches of science where experimentation is not possible. Geology is one of them. No one is doing experimental continental [...]