Writing, writing, writing… I’m actually editing parts of my latest story. Unfortunately now and then I discover that editing isn’t enough, I need to write a scene that’s really still in my head not out in the world. And sometimes I discover that I need to rip words out and throw them away. Sigh. [...]
Category: Wessex saints
Saints of June 10 — a great cloud of witnesses
My sister Mary’s birthday was June 10, 1947. She has another birthday now on November 21, 2020, the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lady. I was thinking of her, yesterday, and wondering idly which saints had a feast day on June 10. I knew that June has some amazing saints. A simple saint calendar [...]
Saint Willibald, writer
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 [...]
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