Tomorrow, I'm traveling to Berryville, VA, to share my books at the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival, even though Hurricane Helene is supposedly going to cause a lot of rain, even up there in western/ northern Virginia. It’s raining today, and rain is forecast for Sunday but Saturday, tomorrow, is supposed to be scattered showers and [...]
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Not quite politics…
These days anyone who volunteers at a Catholic Church has to go through a vetting process and be finger-printed. Then there are a lot of rules about never being alone with children, or driving them anywhere alone, and keeping classroom doors open. The priest who ran one of the sessions I attended said, that we [...]
June 14 v.2
I ended up with a lot of arthritis pain, visited the doctor, and got distracted. So a few random comments today. First -- a lovely quote “Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who know other beings as true, who loves them as good, and who enjoys them as beautiful.” from Etienne [...]
Hubris personified?
I read a remarkable article (and by remarkable I mean, written about some incredibly self-deluded and weird people) the other day from the Guardian, an English source that I occasionally see links to.https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25/american-pronatalists-malcolm-and-simone-collins Although the story is from an English journalist, it was about an American couple with three children, living in the country. They [...]
State of the Reader: January
At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, I looked for books to read in this upcoming 2024. I put a little extra effort into finding murder mysteries by older Catholic authors for my personal list, thinking it might help my writing. (It hasn't so far...) For January, I’ve read …The [...]
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