Diane Tucker’s blog, the Shy MuseumGoer, has a new posting about Blessed Fra Angelico. The pictures are beyond lovely and her descriptions are illuminating, as always. https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2025/11/15/explore-fra-angelico-paintings/ Diane Tucker is the kind of person who takes a friend to the museum, and pretty soon has half a dozen other people following her around, pretending it’s [...]
I am still entering the last of the edits a very lovely person did for me. About 900 wandering commas need to be fixed and I don't seem able to do more than 100 at a time. Also, I lost track of various doctor appointments today so I am about out of time. However! Sunday [...]
Saint Martin is one of the saints that everyone thinks they know. He was a Roman soldier who cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar. Then he discovers that the beggar was actually Jesus himself. Martin gives up his life in the army, becomes a hermit, a reluctant bishop, and a symbol [...]
Today at 5:20 a.m. two little boys arrived at my bedside to tell me that the third one was crying for his mom. I've been cruising at warp speed ever since. So no real posting today though I will say that child number three was willing to be comforted. My novel is really and truly [...]
My mother put herself through college in the late 1930's. She started at the University of Wisconsin, took some classes in Chicago while working there for Barnhardt, the dictionary people, and then finished through the University of Wisconsin extension. She used to talk about going to the Art Institute, and I had no idea what [...]
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