The Pillar, a Catholic newsletter, wrote a review of 'Cabrini', the movie, in the Tuesday, March 12, 2024 edition. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/st-fina-cabrini-and-bishop-birthdays Mr. Flynn wrote several screen-scrolls of explanation of all the other religious movies he didn’t like, and how he was hoping that this one would be different, and by the time he got there you [...]
I saw an article about new ways of teaching preschool classes. You begin the day by talking about how the kids feel. I’m not going to link to it, because it was over the top. But it did say that all the children in the example school ended up in tears, after a few minutes [...]
I’ve been out of town for a week, which means among other things that I did a lot of reading on the plane, and in the airport waiting, and at other moments.Without actually planning this, I ended up reading three books set in the late 1800’s. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel by Douglas Brunt [...]
I commented recently on the book The Strange Case of Dr. Couney — How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies by Dawn Raffel. At that point I hadn’t read it, but now, through a generous gift, I have. Read. This. Book. Dr. Martin Couney was mysterious because he changed his name several [...]
I was strolling through Caroline Furlong’s blog archives (https://carolinefurlong.wordpress.com/) and came across a review she had written in May of 2023. It’s about a book written in 2018 by Dawn Raffel, an author I had never heard of (I haven’t heard of lots of people …) titled The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a [...]
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