This statue is actually quite small, nothing close to life size. It's from the old Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary building, now closed with the students moving to a new location. I have no idea what became of it. Some of the windows moved. Some of the paintings moved. ... Saint Thomas Aquinas -- I think. [...]
What is genre? I have asked and asked this question and back in 2018 I found an interesting explanation -- but I didn't note where it came from. A story is a piece of art that induces different emotions as it is read, or told. Different stories can evoke different patterns, varying types of emotion [...]
May 1 is supposed to be some Communist deal, but when I was a little girl we had our own little ritual that was supposed to honor Our Lady at the start of her month. On the first day of May, we went out and picked flowers, tucked them into homemade paper cornucopias, and took [...]
I'm almost finished with my new book and need to work on it steadily. I'd say this picture, minus the FAA, is about where I'm at. Or maybe FAA stands for Fulfilling Artistic Ambition. That definitely slows down the production of fiction designed to give people a few hours of fun... I have appointments galore [...]
I got up to 80,000 words on my current novel back in March or April. Since then I’ve been trying to turn this great mass of verbiage into a proper story with a likeable protagonist and an entertaining problem to solve … it turned out that I had written a lot but failed on those [...]
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