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Writing about Catholic scientists and ideas that feed my own Catholic fiction

Category: family

Tractors! Eye candy of a very different kind.

August 14, 2026 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

I went to an old-fashioned Power Show last week. I spent four days in the car and four days not in the car with seven other people. We stayed in an apartment above a diner on Main Street, in a town of about 5,000 people. The apartment was very long and narrow, with skylights to [...]

Posted in science and engineering, family, culture, festival, adventure, tractor

Cleaning, cooking, sewing, laundry, ART!

August 4, 2026 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

I have an old post that says, February! How did that happen? So I didn’t call this post, August! How did that happen? But it’s how I feel. The Shy Museum Goer has a new post about a Mexican artist, a woman who is not Frida Kahlo. Maria Izquierdo has a fascinating story of struggle, [...]

Posted in art in other museums, culture, family, national gallery of art, Shy museumgoer

Shine like the stars forever…

July 28, 2026 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

Michele Bourdeau was 81 when she died Sunday, July 26. Explaining my relationship to her is either very simple or very complicated. But dusty today ... She was married to my brother for seven months. Then he died. Now, fifty-eight years later, she has died. I have been going through emails I had from her [...]

Posted in babies, death, family

Friday, July 17, Saint Marcellina, sister of Saint Ambrose

July 17, 2026 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

Eye candy for today. I'm finishing a story and don't have the bandwidth to think about other things. This was part of the old Saint Charles Seminary in Philadelphia. Gone now. sigh... My favorite view as a palate cleanser... I was scrolling through pictures and found this one and the one after it. The old [...]

Posted in church pictures, family, mount monadnock

Six degrees of separation

June 2, 2026 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

I was reminded recently that I was ‘connected’ — by marriage — to Sam Houston. I remember hearing this in some very vague way and knowing that it was a bit of a joke to whoever was saying it to me. However, in the course of various researches I’ve been doing, I stumbled across Isabel [...]

Posted in catholic scientists, family, Sam Houston, science and engineering, Texas

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