... this week. Plus an update. Diane Tucker has a website called The Shy Museumgoer. I happen to love museums and am not shy about them, but never mind. She has gorgeous pictures on her website, and she wrote an article about Saint Joseph in November. https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2023/11/01/why-look-at-paintings-of-saint-joseph/ Diane has a brief discussion of his depiction [...]
Saint Willibald came to my attention the other day when I was teaching Religion to some 8th graders. His feast day coincided with someone’s birthday. Saint Willibald is absolutely fascinating, for someone I never heard of before. And, though he was not himself a writer, he gave (at least one and probably many) talk(s) about [...]
Saint Margaret of Scotland fascinates me. I never heard of her until I was reading a lot of mid-20th century British writers. If they mention Scotland, and a lot of them do, she is apt to come up. Her birth date is not clearly known, but is given as around 1045, or perhaps, 1047. Maybe [...]
In my current novel the heroine needed a patron saint, and she ended up thinking about Saint Waltruda, whose feast day is April 9. This is also the heroine’s birthday and, though it is a Very Important Day in my own family, it was chosen in the book because I was following the liturgical calendar [...]
I’ve been wandering around lately, looking blank and struggling to have simple conversations with people. I don’t have Alzheimers, at least not yet, but I am deeply immersed in writing. In the past few weeks work on my shepherdess novel, Jessamyn, has taken off. I have a word counter, and it says that, on the [...]
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