I enjoy Diane Tucker’s exquisite art blog, "The Shy Museumgoer". She has a new article up discussing the Belgian painter, René Magritte, (1898 - 1967) and you should just go read it.https://theshymuseumgoer.com/2025/07/15/magritte-surrealist-paintings-analysis/ Tucker does fascinating, carefully researched stories, and uses lots of images to make her points. Included in her discussion are some of Magritte’s [...]
Feast of Saint Bonaventure
I didn’t check on the saint of the day last week so I missed Saint Benedict ... until I went to Mass and the priest was discussing his life. Saint Benedict is foundational to western civilization so missing him was stupid. I am trying to do better today! Anyway, Franciscan Media has a nice write [...]
Not clicking on all cylinders today
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 [...]
Teaching or writing or ???
When I started teaching, my first year was pure survival. I certainly presented material so that students could learn but I didn’t really understand classrooms or the dynamics of the students in middle school. I can say looking back, that I did understand a certain amount about certain students but I could have done so [...]
Happy July 4th
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed... My mother said, and [...]
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