Yesterday, March 19 was the Solemnity of Saint Joseph. Here are a few bits of eye candy. They are from the Art Institute of Chicago (first, second, fourth) or from the National Gallery of Art in DC (third). All are in the public domain. Saint Joseph. Undetermined date and questionable artist. Possibly after Tommaso Conca Italian, [...]
I've been reading a book by Niels Arboel, a Danish writer and teacher. His book, The Wonder of Creation: The Most Famous Christian Biologists in History, which I have mentioned previously has twenty biographies in it and there are tremendous differences in the way Arboel writes about the various biologists he is discussing. What I [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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