The House of Cards. Jean Simeon Chardin, French, 1737 NGA Public domain I have a notation that says "Send note to shawkdudders." Unfortunately, the date for this task, whatever it was, has passed. Fortunately I am frequently disorganized enough to have notes in several places so chances are, I actually did it, whatever it was. [...]
I'm knee deep in research for a new short story. This feast for the guardian angels always surprises me, if I paid attention to the Feast of the Archangels, which was four days ago. Conversely, if I miss that feast, this one pops up. This year, both! Two lovely guardian angel pictures for meditation... The [...]
I submitted a short story somewhere and am waiting to hear if it will be accepted for an anthology. This has wrecked my concentration and caused me to obsessively click on my mail function. I know other people have been notified so it's making me glum. So I'm cleaning my computer desktop. The desktop is [...]
I succumbed to peer pressure this week and read the Instagram posts that supposedly detail a mom-fight about whether children can have Oreos in their lunches. (Google is your friend.) The question arose because one mom wanted to control the lunches of children who were not her own. The posts have been declared by some [...]
I went to a funeral Mass yesterday, I went to the cemetery in my black dress, where we waited thirty or forty minutes for the family to arrive. Horrible traffic from the church to the burial grounds. Scorching sun. Sweat running down my back. A husband and wife with adorable girls showed up dragging a [...]
